The 48th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald ship sinking will be memorialized next Friday at the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven beginning at 7 p.m. In 1975, the largest ship sailing the ...
The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald freighter in Lake Superior in 1975 was remembered at a ceremony in River Rouge, Mich. The daughter of the cook on the Edmund Fitzgerald says she learned of his ...
These included unsafe vessel design, unsafe modifications, overloading, lack of critical instrumentation, prior hull damage, a bad weather forecast, a captain who was too cavalier about sailing in ...