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    SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire...
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  • Gordon Lightfoot to memorialize the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. Lightfoot considered this...
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    SS Arthur M. Anderson is a cargo ship of the laker type. She is famous for being the last ship to be in contact with SS Edmund Fitzgerald before she sank...
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  • SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American freighter that sank in Lake Superior in 1975. Edmund Fitzgerald may also refer to: "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"...
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    March and ends mid-January due to the formation of ice on the lakes. SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in 1975, became widely known as the largest and most...
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    Osborn SS Comet SS Cyprus SS D.M. Clemson SS Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship to ever wreck on the Great Lakes SS Indiana SS John B. Cowle SS John...
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    Lakes region in 1976 when it was used to survey the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. CURV-21 is the current generation that replaced CURV-III. CURV was...
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  • 1975) was the last captain of the ill-fated laker-type freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald. He died along with the other 28 members of his crew when the ship...
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    Lakes region and the greater U.S. It dissipated early November. The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a storm November 10, 1975 while carrying taconite across...
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    one of two ships involved in the initial search for the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, along with the SS Arthur M. Anderson on 10 November 1975. The Anderson and...
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  • haunting ballad, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", which told the story of the final hours of SS Edmund Fitzgerald which had sunk on Lake Superior in...
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  • operated ships on the Great Lakes. At one point their flagship was the SS Edmund Fitzgerald through their Columbia Transportation Division. The company's roots...
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    the first self-unloader freighter, SS Wyandotte. GLEW is best known for its construction of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. The GLEW was formed in 1902 to purchase...
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    Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve and the bell from the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. Admission to the museum includes a tour of historic buildings with...
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    SS Michelangelo (1966) – Hole torn in superstructure, heavy glass smashed 24 m (80 ft) above the waterline, and three deaths SS Edmund Fitzgerald (1975) –...
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    collections of model ships in the world, and the bow anchor of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which went down in a storm in 1975. This was founded in 1949 as...
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  • Edmund Bacon Fitzgerald (February 5, 1926 – August 28, 2013) was an American business executive from Wisconsin and was a key figure in bringing major...
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    international demand, taconite is shipped to Mexico and China. The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975, was carrying about...
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    "Titanic of the Great Lakes" on November 10, 1975 (the SS Bannockburn and SS Edmund Fitzgerald, respectively). It is one of the known off-shore spawning...
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    shipwrecks listed below and has information on the notable wreck of SS Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, in which all 29 crew were lost. After the Soo Locks opened...
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    the nearest navigation mark to the wreckage of the ore freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in 1975. Whitefish Point remains one of the most dangerous...
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    2015. McCall, Timothy C. "Timeline of Events for the Edmund Fitzgerald". S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald Online. Retrieved October 17, 2015. "Meet Author Greg...
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    to the high number of shipwrecks in the area, most famously the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. The lighthouse is part of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum complex...
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    Duluth at full speed through a gale and high seas to the scene of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinking in 1975. In 1980, she took part in a rescue rated in the...
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  • ill-fated SS Edmund Fitzgerald which had gone down; but stormy weather forced her to abandon her efforts leaving just the SS William Clay Ford and the SS Arthur...
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    (SS William A. Irvin in Duluth and SS Meteor in Superior), devoted to the local maritime heritage. Superior was the final port of call for SS Edmund Fitzgerald...
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    "Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Edmund Fitzgerald". Worldpress Blog. 26 March 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2017. Shipwrecks - SS Milwaukee "Shipwrecks". Retrieved...
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    statue admires the fountain SS Edmund Fitzgerald bow anchor Exterior of SS William Clay Ford Pilot House Interior of SS William Clay Ford Pilot House...
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    subsidiary, Transtar, Inc. SS Arthur M. Anderson - Last Ship to have Contact with the SS Edmund Fitzgerald SS Cason J. Callaway SS Phillip R. Clarke - First...
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    Great Lakes SS Edmund Fitzgerald SS Carl D. Bradley SS Cedarville SS Chester A. Congdon SS James Carruthers SS Henry B. Smith SS Emperor SS Isaac M. Scott...
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