Edmund Fitzgerald

He was credited with helping to establish the. Edmund Fitzgerald was born in 1895 in Milwaukee Wisconsin.

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Since there were no survivors to provide eyewitness accounts the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald remains a mystery to many. The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank during a storm in Lake Superior on November 10 1975. According to a Los Angeles Times obituary Edmund Fitzgerald who died in 1986 was a civic leader in his hometown of Milwaukee.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was one of the largest ships on the Great Lakes at the time measuring 729 feet long 39 feet tall and 75 feet wide. In the hours after the 728-foot Edmund Fitzgerald abruptly vanished from the radar during a gale on Lake Superior the night of Nov. Gordon Lightfoots 1976 single The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald sounds like an ancient mariners lament -- chalk that up to Lightfoots somber vocals.

When launched on June 7 1958 she was the. On April 15 1977 the US. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald On November 9 1975 the Edmund Fitzgerald pushed across the waters of Lake Superior with a cargo of iron ore.

Although the wreckage of the Edmund Fitzgerald was an undeniable tragedy the improvements in technology and observational methods that occurred as a result have had a lasting impact on. The Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Nov.

Quite literally the ship was barely able to pass. Its last radio contact was. Photograph of the Edmund Fitzgerald taken in May 1975 St.

The raft was brought ashore. Edmunds great grandparents William and Julianna had immigrated from Ireland in 1837 and settled on a. The vessel was carrying a load of iron ore pellets to a Detroit steel mill when it plunged to the.

10 1975 during a storm on Lake Superior. 9 1975 with a load of taconite bound for Detroit. The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the loss of her 29-member crew during a violent fall storm on November 10 1975 just northwest of Whitefish.

Edmund Fitzgerald set sail on her final journey across Lake Superior carrying 29 men and over 26000 long tons of. A storm came up in the afternoon and. A life raft from the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is examined by a US.

9 1975 the SS. Marie Mich Tuesday afternoon Nov. This page lists the most common theories.

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald left Superior on Nov. But did you know there. On May 20 1976 the words Edmund Fitzgerald were clearly seen on the stern upside down 535 feet below the surface of the lake.

Lightfoot wrote Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald to commemorate the 29 lives lost in the sinking of the ore carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior on November 10 1975. The Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Coast Guard released its official.

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