[1FreeAmerican]

Hey everyone- Ya'll forget the Edmund Fitzgerald? Let's see if I can-she was 900' long and went down in about 300' of water when a 150' wave came up her stern. This left only 150' to the bottom and when she was lifted by the wave , she "pearled"(a surfing term?),her bow hit the bottom and she split in two. Probably only took about 15 or 20 seconds. And this happened on which Great Lake?

[eastforker]

Lake Erie.

[capecodder]

Lake Superior, November 1975.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Superior. She broke in two. The Coast guard said her hatches weren't properly secured, but the captain who was following in the Anderson said that he had been hit by a big wave [called "three sisters" up there] and said that might have done it when it got to the Fitzgerald.

He also said that the Fitzgerald either had a stress fracture or had bottomed on a reef earlier and that was the proximate cause of the sinking.

Regards,

[Catspaw]

Hey everyone- Ya'll forget the Edmund Fitzgerald? Let's see if I can-she was 900' long and went down in about 300' of water when a 150' wave came up her stern. This left only 150' to the bottom and when she was lifted by the wave , she "pearled"(a surfing term?),her bow hit the bottom and she split in two. Probably only took about 15 or 20 seconds. And this happened on which Great Lake?

Lake Superior, off Whitefish Point.

Some of the Fitzgerald crew were from my area (northeast Wisconsin).

[woofer]

Ya'll forget the Edmund Fitzgerald? Let's see if I can-she was 900' long and went down in about 300' of water when a 150' wave came up her stern.

And this happened on which Great Lake?

The Fitzgerald was 675" long, no evidence exists about what sunk her, and if you know your Indian Lore, the lake was the Gitcheegoomie

It's the big lake that is superior to all others. The Fitz went down before she could reach the shelter of Whitefish Bay.

[Eaker]

The Fitzgerald weighted 13,632 tons and was 729 feet long. In 1958, when it was first launched, it was the largest carrier on the Great Lakes, and remained so until 1971. The Fitzgerald was labeled "The Pride of the American Flag". In 1964 it became the first ship on the Great Lakes to carry more than a million tons of ore through the Soo Locks. On November 9, 1975 she departed from Superior, WI with approximately 26,000 tons of ore bound for Detroit MI. Shortly after leaving, the Fitzgerald made contact with the Arthur M. Anderson bound, on a similar route, for Gary IN.

This site says it all.

Eaker

[Dark Wing]

Lake Superior. The Edmond Fitzgerald was an iron ore ship taking a load to Cleveland.