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. 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. Nobody knows what sank the ‘edmund fitzgerald.’ but its doomed final voyage will always be america’s defining shipwreck fifty years after the freighter disappeared into the depths of lake. Canadian singer gordon lightfoot’s haunting ballad “the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald” immortalized the tragedy, but the mystery of what caused the modern maritime calamity endures. The edmund fitzgerald’s legacy endures for many reasons.
10, 1975, the ss edmund fitzgerald sank in lake superior, killing its entire crew of 29 and becoming the largest shipwreck in the great lakes The tragedy was immortalized in a gordon. The edmund fitzgerald on st The ashland resident remembers the wet snow whipping against the windows that night. The legend of the edmund fitzgerald remains the most mysterious and controversial of all shipwreck tales heard around the great lakes Her story is surpassed in books, film and media only by that of the titanic.
