The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was built by Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Reportedly, the ship was the first such investment by an American insurance company; at the time, the ...

A SS Edmund Fitzgerald in 1959 AP The last communications between the Anderson and the Fitz came on Nov. 10, 1975, at about 7 p.m. At this point, the Anderson was trailing 10 miles behind the Fitz.

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an ore carrier that, when it was launched in June 1958, was the largest ship on the Great Lakes. Costing $8 million to build, the 729-foot-long ship was designed to ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald was first launched on June 7, 1958 and was the largest carrier on the Great Lakes until 1971. The ship weighed 13,632 tons and measured 729 feet long by 75 feet wide.

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank Lake Superior nearly 47 years ago. A freighter that had been in service for 17 years, the ship went down on the night of November 10, 1975, killing all 29 of the ...

A point made especially poignant by Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 hit song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."The lyrics of which lend clues to its grizzly fate. "The lake, it is said, never gives up ...