Remembering the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald on the 49th anniversary
49 years ago, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald embarked on its very last voyage in Lake Superior. What caused it to sink? We still aren’t sure.
MICHIGAN, USA — It’s been nearly half a century since the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, taking the lives of all 29 members of her crew.
49 years ago on Sunday, one of the most “mysterious and controversial” of all shipwrecks on the Great Lakes took place 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point.
According to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, the only shipwreck to surpass the Edmund Fitzgerald’s story in books, film and media is the Titanic.
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum’s annual Edmund Fitzgerald memorial ceremony was livestreamed at 7 p.m.
