Photo - Lifeboat Of Edmund Fitzgerald On Rescue Freighter, Lake Superior, 1975

Description

-The EDMUND FITZGERALD-
On the night of November 10, 1975, the Great Lakes freighter
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
was reported lost. The
SS William Clay Ford
and the
SS Arthur M. Anderson
were the two ships involved in the initial search. This lifeboat and some minor debris was all that was found.
Built in 1958 at River Rouge, Michigan by the Great Lakes Engineering Works, the steel bulk freighter
EDMUND FITZGERALD
owned and operated by the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Co., Milwaukee, WI., was the largest carrier on the Great Lakes when launched.
The
EDMUND FITZGERALD
foundered on Lake Superior during a severe storm November 10, 1975 at approximately 7:10 pm about 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point. The
FITZGERALD
was running down bound loaded with 26,116 tons of taconite ore pellets from Superior, WI for Detroit, MI. During the height of the storm in 70 knot winds, 25 foot waves combed her deck decreasing her normal 12 feet of freeboard. Several times tons of water washed over her deck and challenged her buoyancy. Her sinking was so quick that no radio message was given though she had been in frequent visual and radio contact with the steamer
ARTHUR M. ANDERSON
. The
FITZGERALD
disappeared from sight in a furious snow squall and then from radar. All 29 officers and crew, including a Great Lakes Maritime Academy Cadet, went down with the ship, which lies broken in two sections in 530 feet of water.
Known as the "Queen of the Great Lakes" -- and thought to be indestructible, the story of the
EDMUND FITZGERALD
inspired Canadian songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," a haunting ballad that launched a legend.
Three decades later, the saga remains so intriguing that the shipwreck has become known as "the Titanic of the Great Lakes", and is just one -- although the most famous -- of some 6,000 known Great Lakes shipwrecks that together have claimed 30,000 lives.
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