Sunday marked the 49th anniversary of the day 29 mariners on the Edmund Fitzgerald freighter lost their lives in a storm on ...
(WPBN/WGTU) -- Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. And starting next week, you can register for a month-long memorial swim from Lake Superior to Detroit.
Event includes beacon lighting, bell tolls and reading the names of those drowned In 1975, the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald left Superior, Wis., headed for Detroit with 26,000 tons of taconite when ...