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Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim participants had to abort their swim nine miles short of their finish at Sturgeon Point ...
The Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim, as it’s called, is a 411-mile relay staged to honor the 50th anniversary of the sinking ...
SAULT STE. MARIE — The Edmund Fitzgerald commemorative swim is facing potential cancellation due to needing a safety boat. On ...
In November 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald encountered a treacherous storm while steaming across Lake Superior. All 29 crew ...
The 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is being memorialized by swimmers who plan to complete the journey that the ship started. FOX 9's Lauren Andrego has more on the symbolism of ...
On Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald was sailing across Lake Superior and loaded with more than 26,000 tons of taconite ore pellets when it ran into a storm packing 70-knot winds and producing ...
2022 Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Event: The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point in the Upper Peninsula will be offering a virtual memorial service on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m.
It was exactly 40 years ago Tuesday when “the winds of November came early” and took the legendary Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald and 29 souls to the bottom of Lake Superior, a… ...
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank with its 29 crew members in a fierce storm on Lake Superior Nov. 10, 1975. The tragedy was immortalized in the 1976 ballad, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” by ...
It was 40 years ago that the Edmund Fitzgerald was lost in Lake Superior. Historian Christopher Winters recently co-authored a book, The Legend Lives On, commemorating the sinking and it will be ...