Edmund Fitzgerald

I remember well when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank. The Great Lakes are a dangerous body of waters. They have claimed more ships than the Bermuda Triangle. Growing up in Minnesota, it was big news. The Edmund Fitzgerald was a record holding ship. She and her crew were a work horse on the Lakes for the seventeen years of her existence, setting seasonal haul record six times. At her launching, she was the largest ship to sail the great lakes, and she is the largest to have been lost. When she went down, she joined at least 240 other vessels in the Whitefish point vicinity.