On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew members on board. It was the worst single accident in Lake Superior’s history.
The ship weighed more than 13,000 tons and was 730 feet long. It was launched in 1958 as the biggest carrier in the Great Lakes and became the first ship to carry more than a million tons of iron ore through the Soo Locks.
Read the complete article on History.com.
Bounding Main’s Gina Dalby wrote a song called Roll Call that honors the ships that were lost on the Great Lakes, including the Edmund Fitzgerald. You can listen to it here.