On the 51st anniversary of the loss of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the maritime community remembers the 729-foot freighter and her 29 crew members, lost in a powerful Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, about 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan. The vessel issued no distress call. A Coast Guard investigation concluded flooding through ineffective hatch closures was the most probable cause. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society will hold a livestreamed memorial at Whitefish Point, and Split Rock Lighthouse will read the crew’s names.
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gCaptain Article: 51 Years Later, the Edmund Fitzgerald and Her 29 Lost Mariners Are Remembered
