(NewsNation) — On this day 50 years ago, one of the largest freighters ever to set sail in the Great Lakes region went down in a violent storm, killing all 29 crewmembers on board. The shipwreck ...
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 ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Edmund James Fitzgerald comes from a long line of Edmund Fitzgeralds. His father was named James Edmund Fitzgerald, and his grandfather was Edmund McCarron Fitzgerald.
You may know it was a powerful storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald 50 years ago today. In the video below, I try to give you some insights into what the weather and Lake Superior may have looked ...