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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 remains the largest to have sunk there.
Aug 23, 2010 · Haven't seen too many videos with a good quality version of this song, so I thought I'd put together a video with lyrics. Enjoy! Pictures are Copyrighted to their respected owners. Video made by ...
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald " is a 1976 hit song written, composed and performed by the Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to memorialize the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. Lightfoot considered this song to be his finest work.
Edmund Fitzgerald, American freighter that sank during a storm on November 10, 1975, in Lake Superior, killing all 29 aboard. Its mysterious demise inspired Gordon Lightfoot’s hit song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” (1976), which helped make it the most famous shipwreck in the Great Lakes.
Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot inspired popular interest in this vessel with his 1976 ballad, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” The Edmund Fitzgerald was lost with her entire crew of 29 men on Lake Superior November 10, 1975, 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan.
On the evening of November 9, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald departed from Superior, Wisconsin carrying 26,116 long tons of iron ore on board. With the intention of reaching Detroit, the enormous vessel began its familiar course across Lake Superior.
On April 15, 1977 the U.S. Coast Guard released its official report of “Subject: S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, official number 277437, sinking in Lake Superior on 10 November 1975 with loss of life.”
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was America’s largest freighter ship at the time and remains the largest ship to sink into the Great Lakes. The ship was huge and important for transporting taconite ore and iron pellets, which were mined in and around Lake Superior.
Nov 10, 2015 · (CBC Still Photo Collection) Hundreds of ships lie at the bottom of Lake Superior, but the one the world remembers isn't the first, or the most catastrophic. It's "The Wreck of the Edmund...
Nov 13, 2021 · SIMON: The bells will ring again tomorrow in the old Mariners' Church of Detroit to remember the souls lost on the Edmund Fitzgerald and an estimated 30,000 lives lost in other shipwrecks.
