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. The edmund fitzgerald’s legacy endures for many reasons. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by gordon lightfoot. 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. The exact cause of the edmund fitzgerald’s sinking is still a mystery, but the lasting legacy is this
There were more than 6,000 shipwrecks on the great lakes in the century prior to the wreck. Fifty years after the ss edmund fitzgerald vanished on lake superior, key questions still linger — despite memorials, improved safety, and rare dives to the wreck. The disaster, which was immortalized by gordon lightfoot's 1976 song 'the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald,' has united canadians and americans across the great lakes. The final voyage of the edmund fitzgerald began november 9, 1975 at the burlington northern railroad dock no.1, superior, wisconsin November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of all the estimated 6,500 ships that have gone down in the great lakes
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