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Monday, November 10, 2025
It was a shipwreck so notorious, it inspired what many critics and listeners agree is one of the greatest songs of all time " a song that helped solidify its legend. Fifty years ago, on Nov. 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a brutal storm on Lake Superior while sailing from Superior, Wisc., to Detroit. The entire crew of 29 men died in the Canadian waters. |
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More Alternate links: Google News | Twitter he scale of the wreck itself also makes it stand out, historians say. The Edmund Fitzgerald remains the largest ship ever to sink in the Great Lakes, which was a particularly booming industrial region in the mid-20th century following the Second World War, when hundreds of commercial vessels ferried raw materials in-between booming port cities on both sides of the border every year. Comments
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