COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - November marks the anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, one of the largest ships to ever sail the Great Lakes. Throughout its career, it earned nicknames like ...
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 ...
The doomed ship went down just 17 miles from safety. Could this evidence explain what went wrong?
As I write this column, it is the 50th anniversary to the day — Nov. 10, 1975 — of the sinking on Lake Superior of the majestic Great Lakes freighter, Edmund Fitzgerald, amid the storm of the century.
There have been six sanctioned expeditions of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The ship sank in Canadian waters in 1975 and rests 535-feet below the surface of Lake Superior. The last dive was approved in 1995 ...
This episode originally aired on Dec. 18, 2025. The Great Lakes are vast and vital shipping lanes, moving essential goods across North America. From the late 1950s through 1975,no freighter set more ...
“The Legend lives on from the Chippewa on downof the big lake they call Gitche GumeeSuperior, they said, never gives up her deadwhen the gales of November come early.”— Gordon Lightfoot As I write ...
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