By the next day, the two ships were caught in a severe storm on Lake Superior, with near hurricane-force winds and waves up to 35 feet (11 m) high. En route to a steel mill near Detroit, Edmund Fitzgerald joined a second taconite freighter, SS Arthur M. McSorley in command, she embarked on her ill-fated voyage from Superior, Wisconsin, near Duluth, on the afternoon of November 9, 1975.
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Ĭarrying a full cargo of ore pellets with Captain Ernest M. Her size, record-breaking performance, and " DJ captain" endeared Edmund Fitzgerald to boat watchers. Clair and Detroit rivers (between lakes Huron and Erie), and entertaining spectators at the Soo Locks (between Lakes Superior and Huron) with a running commentary about the ship. Captain Peter Pulcer was known for piping music day or night over the ship's intercom while passing through the St. As a workhorse, she set seasonal haul records six times, often breaking her own record. Navy aircraft detecting magnetic anomalies, and found soon afterwards to be in two large pieces.įor 17 years, Edmund Fitzgerald carried taconite iron ore from mines near Duluth, Minnesota, to iron works in Detroit, Toledo, and other Great Lakes ports. She was located in deep water on November 14, 1975, by a U.S.
When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. 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. Single fixed pitch 19.5 ft (5.9 m) propeller
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