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Fitger's Brewing Company was a beer manufacturer in Duluth, Minnesota, United States, from 1881 to 1972.The surviving brewery complex stretches for 720 feet (220 m) along the Lake Superior shoreline and East Superior Street, one of Duluth's main roads.
However, on November 10, the anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald with all hands in Lake Superior, the Lift Bridge exchanges a special salute with the SS Arthur M. Anderson when it comes into Duluth Harbor in honor of the Fitzgerald and its crew as the Anderson was the last lake freighter to have contact with the Fitzgerald ...
Russell John Fitzgerald (born October 4, 1972) is an American former professional ice hockey center. He was drafted in the second round, 38th overall, by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft. Fitzgerald played twenty-five games in the National Hockey League with the Penguins in the 1994–95 and 1995–96 seasons. He scored two ...
The Pickwick Restaurant and Pub in Duluth, Minnesota began in 1888 as the “Old Saloon," a tasting bar located within the Fitger Brewing Company. It survived a 1914 move and Prohibition, with many relics from 19th century intact. In 2007, they won a James Beard Foundation Award as an America’s Classic. [1]
SS Arthur M. Anderson in August 2002 at a Duluth ore dock.. SS Arthur M. Anderson came out of the drydock of the American Ship Building Company of Lorain, Ohio in 1952. [1] She had a length of 647 feet (197 m), a 70-foot (21 m) beam, a 36-foot (11 m) depth, [1] and a gross tonnage of roughly 20,000 tons.
She responded from Duluth at full speed through a gale and high seas to the scene of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinking in 1975. In 1980, she took part in a rescue rated in the top 10 USCG rescues when she helped to save the passengers and crew of the cruise ship Prinsendam after it caught fire in position 57°38"N 140° 25"W [ 1 ] then while ...
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Arthur M. Anderson was following (and in contact with) SS Edmund Fitzgerald the night of 10 November 1975, issuing the first distress call. SS Arthur M. Anderson, launched in 1952, is still running. She had the last contact with Edmund Fitzgerald before the latter sank, and was the first would-be rescue vessel to search for Edmund Fitzgerald.