Posted on 11/17/2017 5:30:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most.
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the mintues to hours?
I remember the day she went down.
Damn, now I’ve got that tune back in my head, and I didn’t even play it.
There was a hour or maybe two hour show on one of the History type channels about the Edmond Fitzgerald.
I can’t recall much about it but I do remember there was a ship following it, knowing it was in trouble, then just suddenly, it was gone.
All of those facts were in the song !
Grew up on the shores of the Great Lakes.
Since I was a very little kidlet, I knew that the Edmund Fitzgerald was sad news.
The captain of the Arthur Anderson at that point had been working Great Lake shipping for a half-century; he said that was the worst storm he had ever seen.
The father of the wife of a guy I work with was an engineer who was originally supposed to be in the Fitzgerald on that last trip. Fortunately for him, plans changed and he didn’t go.
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
729 ft long and sank in only 530 ft of water. The bow maybe smashed into the lake floor then she broke up.
Why is the wheelhouse on great lake freighters forward and to the rear on salt water ships?
The gales of November comes early...great song....Dad has the song..
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“...sank in only 530 ft of water.”
Would have been no different than sinking in only 130 ft of water.
Other famous Lake Superior ship tragedies:
Shipwrecks of Lake Superior: 7 Famous Ships Lost in the Waters of the Lake
https://www.lakepedia.com/blog/lake-superior-shipwrecks.html
Spent a workday on one of those oar boats when it was unloading taconite at a steel mill in Chicago - best day of work I had all that summer (the overhead cranes and a bulldozer they lowered into the holds did most of the work; we human laborers just had to shovel up the leftovers in nooks and crannies when they got near the end). Most of my work day was lounging on the deck, watching pleasure boats move up and down the Calumet River.
I remember that History type channel program on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
As I recall the (in my opinion the thoroughly convincing) evidence pointed to a cause due to improperly secured hatches.
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