44 years ago yesterday..............

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Yesterday, November 10th was the 44th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, an American Great Lakes freighter, in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. May they all rest in peace.....

Michael Eugene Armagost
Fred John Beetcher
Thomas H. Bentsen
Edward Francis Binden
Thomas Dale Borgeson
Oliver Joseph "Buck" Champeau
Nolan Franklin Church
Ransom Edward Cundy
Thomas Edger Edwards
Russell George Haskell
George John Holl
Bruce Lee Hudson
Allen George Kalmon
George Frederick MacLellan
Joseph William Mazes
John Henkle McArthy
Captain Ernest Michael McSorley
Eugene William Obrien
Karl Anthony Peckol
John Joseph Poviach
James A Pratt
Robert Charles Rafferty
Paul Micael Rippa
John David Simmons
William J Spengler
Mark Andrew Thomas
Ralph Grant Walton
David Elliot "Cowboy" Weiss
Blane Howard Wilhelm

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If I recall correctly, as big freighters go she was bigger than most
 

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If I recall correctly, as big freighters go she was bigger than most

You are correct.....When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and to this day she remains the largest to have sunk there.
 

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I had just come home to Michigan after getting out of the Navy 2 weeks before the Fitz sank. I could still identify with the sailors, it was a bad feeling.

The last place I ever want to go would be Lake Superior's icewater mansions.
 

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I had just come home to Michigan after getting out of the Navy 2 weeks before the Fitz sank. I could still identify with the sailors, it was a bad feeling.
The last place I ever want to go would be Lake Superior's icewater mansions.
I remember wondering once why a US Navy Recruit Training Command was located in the middle of the continent until I realized just how close conditions on the Lakes are to "real" oceans.
Light went on.
Heck for that matter, learned later on the US Navy had been operating on 'em since the War of 1812, and the light got brighter.
They only talked about the eastern seaboard when I learned about the Revolution in grade school.
 
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