SILVER BAY (AP)-- An annual remembrance ceremony on Minnesota's North Shore is set to mark the 43rd anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The freighter sank in a massive storm on eastern Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1075. Many of the crew members had ties to northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin...
The ill-fated Edmund Fitzgerald set sail for the final time forty years ago today in the afternoon of November 9th, 1975. The ship, loaded with taconite pellets and a crew of 29, left Superior headed east for a steel mill near Detroit, but was caught in a severe storm and sank the next day in Lake Superior killing all aboard.