Sunday marked the 49th anniversary of the day 29 mariners on the Edmund Fitzgerald freighter lost their lives ... of the shipwreck as many of its crewmen on that day in 1975 came from the city ...

The crewmen -- Richard Ouwehand, Martin Hans Sinke, Eric Peijpers and Merijn Heidema -- pleaded guilty to one charge each under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 for their involvement in the oil spill.