The Detroit News has a feature on the last major shipwreck on the Great Lakes, the Edmund Fitzgerald which sank almost 30 years ago in a major storm on November 10, 1975. The story details the sinking, explores how it has remained in the popular mind and includes photos and commemorative events. It also talks about how family members of the lost crew brace for an inevitable wave of phone calls and questions every November and of course the annual playing of Gordon Lightfoot's Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Also see Decades later, various sinking theories persist in the Detroit News
Read The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald from Michigan History Magazine

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