Forty years ago today, a large 729 foot, ore-freighter ship sank. No one really knows why the ship sank. All 29 crew members died that day.
The ship was on Lake Superior weathering a severe storm. The ship was named after the president of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee.
A song was written by Gordon Lightfoot to commemorate this event. Here are the words that he wrote along with the song on a video
The ship was on a destination to Detroit.
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This website has some good pictures of the Edmund Fitzgerald:
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/11/10/fitzgerald-anniversary
http://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/edmund-fitzgerald-36/
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015
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