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Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 34th Anniversary
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| November 10 2009
| Mike R
Posted on 11/10/2009 12:12:18 PM PST by LukeL
34 years ago today, on November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald - aka "Mighty Fritz," - foundered and sank during a storm on Lake Superior. Launched on June 8, 1958, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship on the Great Lakes for the next 13 years
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TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: edmund; edmundfitzgerald; fitzgerald; maritime; shipping; shipwreck; wreck
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posted on
11/10/2009 12:12:19 PM PST
by
LukeL
To: LukeL
2
posted on
11/10/2009 12:14:29 PM PST
by
Pelham
("Badges?!! We don' need no stinkin' badges!!")
To: LukeL
If memory serves the owner died of a heart attack at the launching of the ship.
Cursed from the start.
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posted on
11/10/2009 12:14:59 PM PST
by
Mikey_1962
(Obama: The Affirmative Action President)
To: Pelham
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posted on
11/10/2009 12:16:08 PM PST
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: Mikey_1962
Northwestern Mutual owned the ship. Edmund Fitzgerald was a former CEO of the company, hence the name.
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posted on
11/10/2009 12:17:18 PM PST
by
LRoggy
(Peter's Son's Business)
To: Mikey_1962
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.
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posted on
11/10/2009 12:18:00 PM PST
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: LukeL
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posted on
11/10/2009 12:18:23 PM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
11/10/2009 12:19:09 PM PST
by
Ingtar
(Asses far Left of me; Rinos to the Left; FReepin' on the Right with you.)
To: LukeL
"The Captain wired in he had water coming in, and the good ship and crew was in peril;
And later that night when his lights went out of sight, came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
Prayers up ...
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posted on
11/10/2009 12:20:10 PM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: LukeL
And still Google has the Muppets on their page instead of things like the Berlin Wall or the Edmund Fitzgerald.
[ Make the song go away. It's echoing in my head!]
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posted on
11/10/2009 12:20:57 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Any similarity between V and the Obama admin is just that of Obama and any other totalitarian regime)
To: Pelham
A Boston radio station was playing it last night...I remember it from way back plus have it on a best of Lightfoot album. When it first came out I wondered if it was about an incident from long ago, perhaps because it talks about “the legend lives on”, talking about Lake Superior. It makes you think the sinking of this ship was long ago too; only recently did I find out that it was not long before the song came out.
To: raccoonradio
...And now that I think of it, the station playing it was actually WBOQ based on the North Shore of Boston, and they followed it with their jingle: “We play your good time
favorites/North Shore 104.9”! And I thought, yeah, a “good time” song about 29 dying on a ship?
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To: LukeL
I was raised in lower Michigan, I remember the day very well. I was in the boy scouts and we had plan a camping trip that weekend, It turned bad weather as soon as we set up camp, it rained and rained and the wind picked up and blew like crazy and the temperatures dropped, basically cold and damp windy night. It ended up being a crappy first night, and in the morning we called it quits and hiked out of the camp.
To: LukeL
17 miles from the entry of Whitefish Bay:
“The searchers all say they’d have made Whitefish Bay if they put 15 more miles behind her.”
To: LukeL
"Bigfritz Glug-glug."
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posted on
11/10/2009 12:32:25 PM PST
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: LukeL
I was a very youthful Disk Jockey at a Michigan radio station at the time of the wreck. I was in Chicago the day before and the weather was out of this world. Lake Michigan was blowing up over Lakeshore Drive, and that is a very large swell.
It was a HUGE local story for us. UPI wire was ringing every few minutes with bulletin updates.
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posted on
11/10/2009 12:32:45 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(Ram "Health Care Reform" down our throats in '09, and we'll ram it up your @ss in '10.)
To: raccoonradio
The legend in the song is not the legend of the ship; it’s the legend of Lake Superior.
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posted on
11/10/2009 12:35:43 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(It looks just like a Telefunken U-47. In leather.)
To: LukeL
“The brothers and mothers and sisters and daughters,
Their lungs all filled up with water”
Er..maybe my memory of the lyrics is a little off.
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posted on
11/10/2009 12:37:06 PM PST
by
Carl LaFong
(Experts say experts should be ignored.)
To: LukeL
My uncle Bob, Captain Robert O'Brien was the pilot of the last ship to communicate with the Edmund. He was piloting a ship that night. Bob decided to take the longer route, along the shore line, the pilot of the Edmund took the quicker route across the lake.
true story. check the newspapers for Uncle Bob's quote.
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posted on
11/10/2009 12:38:25 PM PST
by
BarbM
(Portuguese Dog--Kenyan president)
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