The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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The Wreck of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald
On November 10, 1975 the bulk freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior with all 29 men aboard. The Fitzgerald cleared Superior, Wisconsin, on her last trip on November 9, 1975, with a cargo of 26,116 tons of taconite pellets to Detroit. Moving down through Lake Superior she encountered heavy weather and in the early evening of November 10th, suddenly sank approximately 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay. Captain McSorley had indicated he was having difficulty and was taking on water. She had two of three ballast pumps working to try and remove the water that was moving into her belly. She had lost her radar and damage was noted to ballast tank vent pipes and he was ove
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