This heartbreaking loss amid the gales of November is forever part of our Great Lakes history.
Stern shot of the Edmund Fitzgerald in the St. Marys River not long before her sinking on November 10, 1975. Photo provided by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, Roger LeLievreLAKE SUPERIOR, MI - It was 49 years ago today that the Edmund Fitzgerald was being loaded with 26,000 tons of iron ore, prepped for what would become its tragic final voyage.
But a day later, the ship was gone, broken in two and laying on the lake’s bottom in 530 feet of water. All 29 souls aboard were lost. But the ship’s captain and crew were also sons, brothers, husbands and fathers. They hailed from Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota and beyond. Investigators would later say that in the big freighter’s last hour, it battled sustained winds of 60 mph, and waves higher than 25 feet. It may have even encountered “The Three Sisters” - a trio of rapidly-hitting waves that are higher than the others around them.
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