[Mikey_1962]

If memory serves the owner died of a heart attack at the launching of the ship.

Cursed from the start.

[LRoggy]

Northwestern Mutual owned the ship. Edmund Fitzgerald was a former CEO of the company, hence the name.

[LukeL]

The ship also listed when it was launched, crashed into a dock, the blocks holding it on shore were stuck, and it took three whacks to break the champagne bottle.