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The SS Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared from radar and slipped ... He pulled the Tomlinson up and took shelter from the storm. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away on Lake Superior, 29 men on another ...
Descendants of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s namesake return to Port Huron to honor their roots and help complete the freighter’s ...
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the faster ship and took the lead, creating a distance between the two ships of about 10 to 15 miles. McSorley and Cooper knew there was a building November storm ...
MICHIGAN (WPBN/WGTU) -- Sunday, November 10, marks the 49th year since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior. The largest freighter on the Great Lakes went down about 17 miles ...
WHITEFISH POINT, MI - Forty-nine years ago today, the Edmund Fitzgerald was caught in the grip of a deadly storm on Lake Superior. Investigators would later say the Mighty Fitz’s course had put ...
2:15 p.m. The Edmund Fitzgerald, captained by Ernest McSorley, finishes loading 26,116 tons of taconite in Superior, Wis., and departs for Detroit’s Zug Island. The storm that would later sink ...
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a storm on Nov. 10, 1975 in Lake Superior, 17 miles off shore of Whitefish Point in Michigan. It was bound for Detroit, bringing with it 26,000 tons of iron ore.
The storm that blew through the Great Lakes on ... a book and documentary called "Tattletale Sounds" about the Edmund Fitzgerald. After three freighters sank in Lake Michigan near Pentwater ...
It's hard to fathom a storm strong enough to bring down a ship the size of the Edmund Fitzgerald, yet it happened on Lake Superior in 1975. The 48 th anniversary of the famous, mysterious ...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – It was Nov. 10, 1975, when an early winter storm complete with hurricane-force winds and dangerously-high waves sunk the SS Edmund Fitzgerald killing all 29 crew on board.