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Apostle Islands 2005 / The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"On November 10, 1975 the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. All 29 crew members died. At the time, it was the worst shipping disaster on the Great Lakes in 11 years." - http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/fitz.html Well, this wasn't the Edmund Fitzgerald that Gordon Lightfood immortalized in 1976, it's the Fedora and it went down in 1901 in a blaze. "The Fedora is easy to spot, because some of its
port futtocks and iron cross bracing stick out of the water. . . .The
wreckage consists primarily of the lower hull . It is burned to the turn
of the bilge on the starboard side. The port side survives several feet
above the turn of the bilge at the bow and almost 5 feet above the turn
of the bilge near the stern . The wreck is 281 feet 4 inches from sternpost
to stem . The sides of the hull have collapsed outward, increasing the
ship's width beyond the original beam measurement." |
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