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How the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Became Every Guy's Favorite Historical Maritime Disaster
For the past several years, a Gordon Lightfoot song from 1976 has become an unlikely seasonal meme. The song, of course, is “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” a mournful ballad of the true story of ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Monday marks 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald was lost to Lake Superior, becoming the largest shipwreck on the Great Lakes and one of its most storied tragedies. News ...
On the brilliant fall afternoon of November 9, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald glided out of Superior, Wisconsin, loaded with 26,000 tons of taconite pellets bound for Detroit. The vast expanse of Lake ...
SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - Mid-Michigan marks 50 years since the wreckage of the Edmund Fitzgerald that sank on Lake Superior in November of 1975. The ship battled the rough waters of Lake Superior as ...
PARADISE, MI — Ric Mixter of one of only a few people who can say they’ve seen the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald with their own eyes. On July 4, 1994, Mixter spent almost two hours on the bottom of ...
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