When launched on june 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on north america's great lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there. Edmund fitzgerald, american freighter that sank during a storm on november 10, 1975, in lake superior, killing all 29 aboard Its mysterious demise inspired gordon lightfoot’s hit song “the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald” (1976), which helped make it the most famous shipwreck in the great lakes. Nobody knows what sank the ‘edmund fitzgerald.’ but its doomed final voyage will always be america’s defining shipwreck fifty years after the freighter disappeared into the depths of lake. A vessel the size of the edmund fitzgerald seldom succumbs for a single reason Although the wreck’s true cause sank to the depths with the ship, several intertwined theories have surfaced.
The edmund fitzgerald’s legacy endures for many reasons. The exact cause of the edmund fitzgerald’s sinking is still a mystery, but the lasting legacy is this There were more than 6,000 shipwrecks on the great lakes in the century prior to the wreck. 10, 1975, the ss edmund fitzgerald sank in lake superior, killing its entire crew of 29 and becoming the largest shipwreck in the great lakes The tragedy was immortalized in a gordon. This underwater photo of the sunken ss edmund fitzgerald was taken by an unmanned submersible robot, as a research team investigates the wreck site 17 miles northwest of whitefish point, mich., on.
Ss edmund fitzgerald online features information about the sinking, ship history, memorials, and crew profiles.
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