SS Edmund Fitzgerald, an American Great Lakes freighter, sank in Lake Superior November 10, 1975, during a storm, losing the entire crew of 29 men.
Launched in 1958, she was the largest ship on North America’s Great Lakes and is still the largest to have sunk there.
The story of the wreck became widely known because of the poignant song by Gordon Lightfoot.
You might like to hear it sung by Home Free.
When we visited Duluth, Minnesota, years ago, we enjoyed watching the big lakers come in at the Lift Bridge. A museum there also shows a film about what happened to the Fitzgerald. She was located in deep water on November 14, 1975, by a U.S. Navy aircraft and found soon afterwards to be in two large pieces.
Our American Stories also has a compelling twenty-minute audio about the doomed freighter, told by Ric Mixter of Lake Fury.