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Image by R. LeLievre. Welcome to S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald Online, a site dedicated to informing others about the ship and the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The 1975 tragedy took the lives of 29 men: sons, brothers, fathers, and husbands.
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The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is OFFICIALLY identified....
- Fitz Timeline
The Edmund Fitzgerald. The legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald remains the most mysterious and controversial of all shipwreck tales heard around the Great Lakes. Her story is surpassed in books, film and media only by that of the Titanic.
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 .
The Fateful Journey - Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society. by Sean Ley, Development Officer. The final voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald began November 9, 1975 at the Burlington Northern Railroad Dock No.1, Superior, Wisconsin.
Coordinates: 46°59′54″N. SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. 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.
To this day, the Edmund Fitzgerald remains the largest ship to ever go down in the Lakes. To view a comprehensive story map of this tragic event, visit this webpage created by the weather forecast office in Marquette, Michigan.
