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1 posted on 11/10/2018 4:51:52 AM PST by keat
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One of Gordon Lightfoot’s greatest songs!


2 posted on 11/10/2018 4:54:52 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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3 posted on 11/10/2018 4:56:32 AM PST by hardspunned
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I’m sure glad the Government found the cause of this in such a timely matter! Only took a few decades to get to the bottom of this!


4 posted on 11/10/2018 4:57:30 AM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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The searches all say they’d have made Whitefish Bay, if they’d put fifteen more miles behind her!

Beau and I were just discussing this awful ‘anniversary’ over coffee this morning. What a horrible way to die. I was 15 at the time. My Dad and Grandpa were HUGE Maritime buffs, so I’ve been to plenty of museums while growing up.

This one is amazing:

https://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/edmund-fitzgerald/


5 posted on 11/10/2018 4:59:02 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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I thought the long period of the swell supporting the vessel at each end produced a bending moment breaking the vessel at the center point between the supports


6 posted on 11/10/2018 5:02:29 AM PST by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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My brother-in-law was hunting on Lake Butte Des Morts near Oshkosh, Wisconsin that day said the canvasbacks were coming in like crazy, then within an hour, his decoys were frozen in the lake and he barely got his boat out of the lake. Temperatures that day went from 60s to below freezing very quickly. Said the winds were steady and at least 50 mph by the time he got off the water. He thought he was going to die.


8 posted on 11/10/2018 5:05:28 AM PST by irish guard
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Seen the accident report. Doesn’t really match the wreckage, as others have noticed. The bow is buried deep into the sediment, estimated impact speed of 45 mph. More likely than not, the Fitzgerald hit bottom after going over large wave. The site is about 250-300 feet deep. Since the world now recognizes that rogue waves are real (more than 60 foot waves do occur), this explanation and not the “hatch cover failure” seems more credible.

Still hard to believe a modern giant can be lost on a lake, but superior is more like an ocean than a lake, and that wasn’t a simple storm.


9 posted on 11/10/2018 5:06:51 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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Then there is this:

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2010/03/25/gordon_lightfoot_changes_edmund_fitzgerald_lyrics.html


10 posted on 11/10/2018 5:07:17 AM PST by klgator
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12 posted on 11/10/2018 5:08:51 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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‘The pride of the American side...’ What a great song Gordon Lightfoot wrote. I heard that the youngest victim was 16.


24 posted on 11/10/2018 5:32:45 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called ‘gitche gumee’
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early

The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ship’s bell rang
Could it be the north wind they’d been feelin’?

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too,
T’was the witch of November come stealin’
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashin’
When afternoon came it was freezin’ rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind

When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin’
Fellas, it’s too rough to feed ya
At seven pm a main hatchway caved in, he said
Fellas, it’s been good t’know ya
The captain wired in he had water comin’ in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went outta sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searches all say they’d have made Whitefish Bay
If they’d put fifteen more miles behind her
They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters

Lake Huron rolls, superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
In the maritime sailors’ cathedral
The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call ‘gitche gumee’
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early

Songwriters: GORDON LIGHTFOOT

© Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
For non-commercial use only.


38 posted on 11/10/2018 6:08:37 AM PST by oldvirginian ( Buckle up kids, rough road ahead.)
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Bookmark


48 posted on 11/10/2018 6:33:26 AM PST by JDoutrider
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Before the hatch covers collapsed, floodign into the ballast tanks and tunnel through topside damage and flooding into the cargo hold through nonweathertight hatch covers caused a reduction of freeboard and a list.

That there is one heck of a sentence.

57 posted on 11/10/2018 7:50:46 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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