Monday marked the 50th anniversary of the loss of the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald to the storms of Lake Superior, a tragedy that reflects harshly on the impotence of humans and their machines before ...
A life ring from the Edmund Fitzgerald, the famous Great Lakes freighter that was shipwrecked 50 years ago, will be auctioned in Detroit this month. The orange life ring washed onto the Lake Superior ...
FILE - The largest and longest vessel ever built on the Great Lakes, the 729-foot ore carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald, slides into the launching basin, on June 7, 1958, in Detroit, Michigan. Sailors who ...
PARADISE, MICHIGAN — Whitefish Point, also known as the Shipwreck Coast around the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and as the Graveyard of the Great Lakes to the sailors who must sneak past it to enter ...
On the brilliant fall afternoon of November 9, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald glided out of Superior, Wisconsin, loaded with 26,000 tons of taconite pellets bound for Detroit. The vast expanse of Lake ...
A life ring and piece of wood found after the ill-fated SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in 1975 were sold at auction on Friday, Dec. 19, for $150,000 — more than seven times the pre-auction estimate. "We ...
LAKE SUPERIOR, MI - “Things look pretty bad. It looks like she may have split apart at the seams.” In the hours after the 728-foot Edmund Fitzgerald abruptly vanished from the radar during a gale on ...
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