Thirty-eight years ago the Edmund Fitzgerald foundered on Lake Superior, about 17 miles from the entrance of Whitefish Bay. All 29 crew members passed away.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was christened on June 8, 1958 where more than 15,000 people attended its launch. The ship made regular routes between Duluth, Detroit, Toledo and other ports carrying up to 24,000 tons of taconite.
On Sunday, November 9, 1975 the Edmund Fitzgerald left from Superior, Wisconsin heading for Zug Island, near Detroit. The following day across Lake Superior there were reported winds of 60mph and waves of 35 feet. The Soo Locks had already closed. The Arthur M. Anderson had been trailing the Fitzgerald across Lake Superior and would eventually lose radio contact with the Fitzgerald.
Though my parents can recall the day the Fitzgerald sank, it was long before my life had begun. It became Godon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” that would leave a memory in my mind. The song was released in August 1976, not yet a year since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank. The song was supposedly influenced by a Newsweek article titled “The Cruelest Month”, which reported on the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Time to pay some respect to this once great ship as we see it here taking on a load of iron ore up in Two Harbors
Share pix if ya have this feller on your layout :Y:
The Edmund Fitzgerald was christened on June 8, 1958 where more than 15,000 people attended its launch. The ship made regular routes between Duluth, Detroit, Toledo and other ports carrying up to 24,000 tons of taconite.
On Sunday, November 9, 1975 the Edmund Fitzgerald left from Superior, Wisconsin heading for Zug Island, near Detroit. The following day across Lake Superior there were reported winds of 60mph and waves of 35 feet. The Soo Locks had already closed. The Arthur M. Anderson had been trailing the Fitzgerald across Lake Superior and would eventually lose radio contact with the Fitzgerald.
Though my parents can recall the day the Fitzgerald sank, it was long before my life had begun. It became Godon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” that would leave a memory in my mind. The song was released in August 1976, not yet a year since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank. The song was supposedly influenced by a Newsweek article titled “The Cruelest Month”, which reported on the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Time to pay some respect to this once great ship as we see it here taking on a load of iron ore up in Two Harbors
Share pix if ya have this feller on your layout :Y: