This week Bill takes us to the Edmund Fitzgerald from two vantage points
From a Canadian perspective her story is surpassed in books, film and media only by that of the Titanic. You most likely know the lyrics: “The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down. Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee…”
The forty-eight-year-old story of the Edmund Fitzgerald story is well known. The following is condensed from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The Great Lakes freighter was lost with her entire crew of 29 men on Lake Superior in 1975, 27 kilometres north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan but in Ontario waters.
The Fitzgerald’s normal course during her productive life took her between Silver Bay, Minnesota, where she loaded taconite, to steel mills on the lower lakes in the Detroit and Toledo area. She was usually empty on her return trip to Silver Bay. On Nov. 9, 1975, Fitzgerald was to transport a load of taconite from Superior, Wisconsin, to Zug Island, Detroit, Michigan.
Weather conditions continued to deteriorate. Gale warnings had been issued at 7 p.m. on Nov. 9, upgraded to storm warnings early in the morning of Nov. 10. Conditions were bad, with winds gusting to 50 knots and seas 12 to 16 feet…The Coast Guard conducted an extensive and thorough search. On Nov. 14, a U.S. Navy plane equipped with a magnetic anomaly detector located a strong contact 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point.
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