Today marks 47 years since the Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior, 17 miles from Whitefish Bay in Northern Michigan. I saw the ore boats all the time when I was growing up - we could sometimes see them in the distance through our living room window, off beyond the Wind Point Lighthouse and reef. When I was in school in Milwaukee, I was very close to Jones Island, where the Edmund Fitzgerald and other ore boats tied up for the Winter. I've often wondered if I had seen the Edmund Fitzgerald.


The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum tells the story:

https://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/edmund-fitzgerald/