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SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there.
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship to ever wreck on the Great Lakes [9] SS Indiana; SS John B. Cowle; SS John Mitchell; SS M.M. Drake; SS Myron; SS Vienna; SS Western Reserve; Another such place is known as "Shipwreck Alley," which is a 448-square-mile (1,160 km 2) area of the Lake Huron shoreline that holds an estimated 200 shipwrecks.
Stories about the Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald were on the front page of Detroit Free Press' Nov. 12, 1975 edition. The ship disappeared on Nov. 10 on Lake Superior and was later found ...
Among the most famous wrecks is the Edmund Fitzgerald, which went down in a fierce November gale on Lake Superior in 1975. But nine years earlier, the Daniel J. Morrell sank on Lake Huron on Nov ...
Launched on June 7, 1958, the Fitzgerald became the largest carrier on the Great Lakes until 1971, according to the National Weather Service in Mar 47 years later, remembering the Edmund ...
Between the loss of the Invincible in 1816 and the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, the Whitefish Point area has claimed at least 240 ships. [4] Vessels are funneled through Whitefish Bay downbound and upbound from the Soo Locks. Poor visibility from forest fire smoke, snow squalls, and Lake Superior's notorious fogs had deadly ...
These wreck sites are protected for future generations of sports divers by the Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve. [ 28 ] The site is a venue for remembrance of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald , and extends back to the 1816 loss of "the very first ship known to sail on Superior, the sixty-foot trading vessel Invincible," which upended in gale force ...