The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Wreck of the S.S. Edmund FitzgeraldOn November 10, 1975 the bulk freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior with all 29 men aboard. The Fitzgerald cleared Superior, Wisconsin, on her last trip on November 9, 1975, with a cargo of 26,116 tons of taconite pellets to Detroit. Moving down through Lake Superior she encountered heavy weather and in the early evening of November 10th, suddenly sank approximately 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay. Captain McSorley had indicated he was having difficulty and was taking on water. She had two of three ballast pumps working to try and remove the water that was moving into her belly. She had lost her radar and damage was noted to ballast tank vent pipes and he was ove
All 29 officers and crew, including a Great Lakes Maritime Academy cadet, went down with the ship, which lies broken in two sections in 530 feet of water. I have been to the site of the wreck and seen many pictures of the great vessel, and I know the memory of her will live on in the hearts of many sailors and captains that lost friends that day. Anyone who passes through that shipping channel knows what lies beneath him or her on the bottom of Lake Superior. The Edmund Fitzgerald was removed from documentation January 1976. Daniel Wolff, Tony Wesley and Glen Crews. This is not what the Lake Carriers Association's said caused the accident, they said it was caused by flooding through bottom and ballast tank damage resulting from bottoming on the rocks between the Caribou and Michipicoten Islands. Coast Guard, report on August 2, 1977 cited faulty hatch covers, lack of water tight cargo hold bulkheads and damage caused from an undetermined source. " McSorley said it was the worst storm he had ever seen. Coast Guard's official report supporting the theory of faulty hatches.
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