On this day in 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm.
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
Let's learn more about this tragedy.
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ALT The image shows a large lake freighter ship named "Edmund Fitzgerald" sailing on a body of water. The ship has a white superstructure with a red hull and is flying a flag from its mast. The sky is overcast, and there is a plume of smoke coming from the ship's smokestack, indicating it is in operation. The ship is well-known due to its tragic sinking in a storm on Lake Superior in 1975, which inspired the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot.