Anniversary Of Lake Superior Ore Carrier Edmund Fitzgerald Marked

It was 37 years ago Saturday that the entire crew of 29 men perished when the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald went to the bottom of Lake Superior in a November gale.

 

 

 

 

It was 37 years ago Saturday that the entire crew of 29 men perished when the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald went to the bottom of Lake Superior in a November gale, coming to rest in two pieces in 530 feet of water off Michigan's Whitefish Point. Hundreds are expected at Split Rock Lighthouse as the beacon is given its once-a-year lighting, and a bell tolls 29 times while names are read of the crewmembers who died. Split Rock Lighthouse was decommissioned in 1969, six years before the Fitzgerald passed by on its fateful voyage. There has been no major shipwreck on Lake Superior since.

(KFGO News Photo File)

 

Don Haney

   

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