The searches all say they’d have made Whitefish Bay, if they’d put fifteen more miles behind her!
Beau and I were just discussing this awful ‘anniversary’ over coffee this morning. What a horrible way to die. I was 15 at the time. My Dad and Grandpa were HUGE Maritime buffs, so I’ve been to plenty of museums while growing up.
This one is amazing:
https://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/edmund-fitzgerald/
Had to be one hell of a storm.
I have not yet been to the White Fish museum but I want to go. I have been to the museum and lighthouse at Split Rock on the shores of Superior and highly recommend it.
The have a special observance every anniversary of this sinking as I recall. Split Rock is near where ships ground, sink and sometime go through rescues if they get driven west going into or out of Superior/Duluth. Many wrecks commemorated there and very beautiful. That lake shore drive is best not taken in the winter, however. Had a great vacation at Cascade Falls just north of there one year.
He says they got too close to Six Fathom Shoal and McSorley knew they were sinking and needed the Anderson closer than they were. Fully loaded, taking on water in those conditions it lost buoyancy in huge waves and drove toward the bottom, instantly losing radio and radar contact.
Horrible.