PARADISE, Mich. – In an annual event, Great Lakes Shipwreck museum remembers the lives lost on the Edmund Fitzgerald with a memorial.
It was 1958, at a cost of $8 million the freighter was built as the largest vessel on the Great Lakes until 1971. On the fateful evening it was carrying 26,116 tons of taconite pellets when it went down Nov. 10, 1975, in Lake Superior, 17 miles from Whitefish Point. All 29 crewmen aboard the SS Edmund Fitzgerald were lost.
This year, the Shipwreck Museum’s 48th Anniversary Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Event will be held virtually on Friday, November 10th at 7 p.m.
In an announcement on their website, Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum indicates that the memorial service will be available on a live-stream access and that further details will be announced soon. The live-stream link will be made available on their website during the week of the event.
For more information, call 800-635-1742 or click here to visit the museum’s website.
— with files from upmatters.com
