Half a century ago, on an unseasonably warm fall day, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald set off from the western edge of ...
The Edmund Fitzgerald vanished without a mayday, leaving investigators with wreckage, competing theories, and no survivors. This is how the evidence fits together into one plausible chain of events, ...
Fifty years ago today, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank. For any child of the Great Lakes growing up in the 1990s, as I did, the event is infamous; not only because Gordon Lightfoot’s song was constantly ...
The gales of November are upon us. On this day, 50 years ago, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior during a storm. All 29 crew members drowned. The sinking of the Fitzgerald remains one of ...
WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Monday is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, marking a half-century of fascination with one of the most infamous nautical ...
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 ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Half a century ago, on an unseasonably warm fall day, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald set off from the western edge of Lake Superior with a ...