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SS Edmund Fitzgerald
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an ore freighter that sailed on the Great Lakes in the United States from 1958-1975. Measuring 729 feet long with a beam of 75 feet and a depth of 39 feet, at the time of her launching she was the largest ship to sail the American Great Lakes and held many records for load, speeds, and other benchmarks. She sank with all 29 of her crew members on November 10, 1975 in a very bad winter storm. There was no distress call and no survivors to recount what happened that day, but a popular theory is that a phenomenon known on the lakes as the Three Sisters, a set of three gigantic waves that occurs periodically in very bad weather, caught up with an already-damaged Fitz and drove it to the bottom in seconds, the force of which broke the ship in half on its way down. The wreck diorama is how the ship lays today in about 530 feet of water at the bottom of Lake Superior.
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an ore freighter that sailed on the Great Lakes in the United States from 1958-1975. Measuring 729 feet long with a beam of 75 feet and a depth of 39 feet, at the time of her launching she was the largest ship to sail the American Great Lakes and held many records for load, speeds, and other benchmarks. She sank with all 29 of her crew members on November 10, 1975 in a very bad winter storm. There was no distress call and no survivors to recount what happened that day, but a popular theory is that a phenomenon known on the lakes as the Three Sisters, a set of three gigantic waves that occurs periodically in very bad weather, caught up with an already-damaged Fitz and drove it to the bottom in seconds, the force of which broke the ship in half on its way down. The wreck diorama is how the ship lays today in about 530 feet of water at the bottom of Lake Superior.