Capt. Cooper & US Coast Guard Radio Transmissions on Nov. 10th, 1975. (The Edmund Fitzgerald)

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[bigbob]

A fascinating piece of history, and a good opportunity to remember those who were lost, and to give thanks for the Coast Guard and fellow lakeboatmen who put their own lives in jeopardy by heading back into the storm to assist in the search.

[KC_Lion]

Thank you for posting this.

I almost forgot this is the 40th Anniversary.

Gordon Lightfoot's song is also my Favorite song of all time.

I wonder if they will be commemorating this on The Great Lakes Today?

This Excellent Version has Captain Cooper's and The News reports sound bites scattered through out the song.

I highly recommend a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw

[gov_bean_ counter]

BFL.

[Fantasywriter]

I have listened to this recording more than once. You can tell Cooper knew he wasn’t going to find anybody. As he explained elsewhere, it takes scant seconds for any member of the crew to issue a Mayday. Phones were located throughout the ship. The fact that the Fitz went down too fast for even a single, partial distress signal tells the story.

[thackney]

As bells tolled 11 times inside the Mariners’ Church in downtown Detroit, family members of some of the victims of the Nov. 10, 1975, wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald mourned but recalled happier times for their loved ones.

Sisters Elaine Riippa Sespico and Lonnie Turner journeyed from Ashtabula, Ohio, to Detroit to join more than 250 in the church at the foot of the Detroit River to remember their 22-year-old brother, Paul Michael Riippa, during the annual Great Lakes memorial service for the ill-fated freighter.

The service was broadened to remember victims from all disasters and tragedies on the Great Lakes.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/edmund-fitzgerald/2015/11/08/families-edmund-fitzgerald-victims-remember/75424414/

[Kartographer]

Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6DUFPNILvM

[cripplecreek]

I personally believe she went down the front of a wave and just kept going. The captain wouldn't have known just how bad it was till the water burst into the wheelhouse.



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[oust the louse]

Great song...to a sad story.

[Finatic]

Part of my business is doing film to DVD transfer and recently I had a reel of film that showed the Edmund Fitzgerald making one of its runs through a lake channel.

[bigbob]

I actually went there to listen to that piece, which is excellent, only to find the actual tape recording of the radio traffic had been posted a few years ago. Cynically you have to wonder if nowadays the lawyers for the Dubai corporation who owns the shipping company would have been consulted.

There is an annual memorial service as I understand it.

[Old Sarge]

BFL

[cripplecreek]

Armstice day storm of November 11 1940 killed 120.

[Sequoyah101]

Thanks for posting this. Coming about in a laker in seas like on that night would just encourage the same fate as the “Fitsgerald”.

[cripplecreek]

'Landmark storm': 75 years ago, Armistice Day Storm engulfed the Great Lakes

[fatima]

Bump.

[cripplecreek]

Also great audio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysWpqKy424o

[Ticonderoga34]

Ping for later read.

[Whenifhow]

Edmund Fitzgerald and Crew - Rare Footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7Z8ZWgAMk&feature=youtu.be

[dmz]

Tony Rice covers the tune nicely on his record of Gordon Lightfoot covers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUfalY7d83o

[laker_dad]

This place has an awesome exhibit with the actual ship’s bell and video of the retrieval.

https://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/