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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. 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.
For 17 years, Edmund Fitzgerald carried taconite iron ore from mines near Duluth, Minnesota, to iron works in Detroit, Toledo, and other Great Lakes ports. As a workhorse, she set seasonal haul records six times, often breaking her own record. Captain Peter Pulcer was known for piping music day or night over the ship's intercom while passing through the St. Clair and Detroit rivers (between lakes Huron and Erie), and en tertaining spectators at the Soo Locks (between Lakes Superior and Huron) with a running commentary about the ship. Her size, record-breaking performance, and "DJ captain" endeared Edmund Fitzgerald to boat watchers.
Carrying a full cargo of ore pellets with Captain Ernest M. McSorley in command, she embarked on her ill-fated voyage from Superior, Wisconsin, near Duluth, on the afternoon of November 9, 1975. En route to a steel mill near Detroit, Edmund Fitzgerald joined a second taconite freighter, SS Arthur M. Anderson. 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. Shortly after 7:10 p.m., Edmund Fitzgerald suddenly sank in Canadian (Ontario) waters 530 feet (88 fathoms; 160 m) deep, about 17 miles (15 nautical miles; 27 kilometers) from Whitefish Bay near the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario—a distance Edmund Fitzgerald could have covered in just over an hour at her top speed.
Edmund Fitzgerald previously reported being in significant difficulty to Arthur M. Anderson: "I have a bad list, lost both radars. And am taking heavy seas over the deck. One of the worst seas I've ever been in." However, no distress signals were sent before she sank; Captain McSorley's last (7:10 P.M.) message to Arthur M. Anderson was, "We are holding our own." Her crew of 29 perished, and no bodies were recovered. The exact cause of the sinking remains unknown, though many books, studies, and expeditions have examined it. Edmund Fitzgerald may have been swamped, suffered structural failure or topside damage, experienced shoaling, or suffered from a combination of these.
The disaster is one of the best-known in the history of Great Lakes shipping. Gordon Lightfoot made it the subject of his 1976 hit song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" after reading an article, "The Cruelest Month", in the November 24, 1975, issue of Newsweek. The sinking led to changes in Great Lakes shipping regulations and practices that included mandatory survival suits, depth finders, positioning systems, increased freeboard, and more frequent inspection of vessels.
| History: | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name: | Edmund Fitzgerald |
| Owner: | Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company |
| Operator: | Columbia Transportation Division, Oglebay Norton Company of Cleveland, Ohio |
| Port of registry: |
 Milwaukee, United States |
| Ordered: | February 1st, 1957 |
| Builder: | Great Lakes Engineering Works of River Rouge, Michigan |
| Yard number: | 301 |
| Laid down: | August 7th, 1957 |
| Launched: | June 7th, 1958 |
| Maiden voyage: | September 24th, 1958 |
| In service: | June 8th, 1958 |
| Out of service: | November 10th, 1975 |
| Identification: | Registry number US 277437 |
| Nickname(s): | Fitz, Mighty Fitz, Big Fitz, Pride of the American Side, Toledo Express, Titanic of the Great Lakes |
| Fate: | Lost in a storm on November 10th, 1975, with all 29 crew members |
| Status: | Wreck |
| Notes: | Location:  46°59.91′N 85°06.61′W |
| General characteristics: | |
| Type: | Lake freighter |
| Tonnage: | 13,632 GRT 8,713 NRT (from 1969: 8,686 NRT) 26,000 DWT |
| Length: | 729 ft (222 m) overall 711 ft (217 m) between perpendiculars |
| Beam: | 75 ft (23 m) |
| Draft: | 25 ft (7.6 m) typical |
| Depth: | 39 ft (12 m) (moulded) |
| Depth of hold: | 33 ft 4 in (10.16 m) |
| Installed power: |
As built: Coal fired Westinghouse Electric Corporation steam turbine at 7,500 shp (5,600 kW) After refit: Conversion to oil fuel and the fitting of automated boiler controls over the winter of 1971–72. Carried 72,000 U.S. gal (270,000 L; 60,000 imp gal) fuel oil |
| Propulsion: | Single fixed pitch 19.5 ft (5.9 m) propeller |
| Speed: | 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Capacity: | 25,400 tons of cargo |
| Crew: | 29 |
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