Posted on 11/10/2014 3:24:02 PM PST by artichokegrower
39 years ago today, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in eastern Lake Superior with the loss of all 29 souls on board. Even to this day, the 1975 sinking remains the Great Lakes region’s most famous and mysterious maritime disaster.
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The 1940 Armistice Day storm was a very bad one. I have read many accounts of it, many in hunting journals. A lot of hunters died, along with many more Great Lakes sailors than went down on the Fitz.
It appears another one is going on now, just as I'm getting ready to leave Nawth Flawaduh in the AM for the Michigan deer season. Brrrrrrrr.
They should play “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” over the National Weather Service radio transmitter.
In the 1940 storm, three freighters and two smaller boats went down, with the loss of 66 lives.
I was up at Whitefish Point for a couple of days last summer. It’s an interesting place. Even on the calmest, clearest, warmest day of the summer you get an ominous sense of foreboding as you gaze out on Lake Superior about just how ferocious it gets there when the weather turns bad.
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald condensed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfHJ_G5V0M0
At seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in; he said,
“Fellas, it’s bin good t’know ya!”
I was in South Bend for the January 26-28, 1978 megastorm. Never seen snow fall like that before or since.
It’s kinda creepy following the live Tweets knowing what the outcome is going to be.
It really is. Those animated GIFs showing the wind speeds and wave heights during the storm are amazing.
Is that at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore? Yow!
I'm going to youtube and listen to that song, sometime when I have a couple hours to spare.
39 years ago...I have to thank Gordon Lightfoot to help remember the Edmund Fitzgerald. Being a mariner is a hard and dangerous job.
Gordon Lightfoot did a great job with the music and lyrics on that tragedy.
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