Hence, the chances of bodies being floated away with waves are minimal. Later, Canada placed a prohibition on all diving activity to preserve the area as a grave site for the 29 men who died that night. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald took with it more than just a ship, it took with it 29 men who were loved, admired, and that will never be forgotten. The 1975 tragedy took the lives of 29 men: sons, brothers, fathers, and husbands. Page of 2 Sort By. SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. The last words recorded from the ship were from Captain McSorley which said “We are holding our own.”. Edmund Fitzgerald crew. The cold water slows decaying of the bodies and this allows the bodies to stay down at the sea bed. On the afternoon of November 9th 1975, Fitzgerald was carrying a full cargo of ore pellets Superior, Wisconsin, near Duluth to a mill on Zug island near Detroit, Michigan. Captained by Ernest M. McSorley, the ship was joined by another freighter, SS Arthur M. Anderson when it was caught in waves up to 35 feet high.eval(ez_write_tag([[300,250],'mysteriousfacts_com-medrectangle-4','ezslot_1',105,'0','0'])); It is believed that Fitzgerald wasn’t able to cope with the storm and sank in the waters of Canada at around 7:10 PM. The Alien or the UFO theory was backed by the fact that dead bodies do not float in Lake Superior. When no bodies were found, it was believed that an UFO or aliens might have taken away the crew. 40 years ago, on November 10, 1975 the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior. Marie, Michigan, and Sault Ste. The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Nov. 10, 1975. TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) _ A marine explorer's decision to use pictures of the underwater remains of a crewman killed in the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck in a 20th anniversary book and video has victims' families fuming. Marie, Ontario. Forty years ago, on November 10th 1975 an American Great Lakes Freighter vanished from Lake Superior. ``Personally, I feel the man is morally bankrupt,'' said Beth Blasucci of Pacific Palisades, Calif., whose father, John McCarthy, was the ship's first mate. Page 1. Welcome to S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald Online, a site dedicated to informing others about the ship and the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald. There was NEWS of the wreck being found but no one still knows the exact cause of the incident. Some also believe involvement of Aliens and abduction of the 29 crew members. In the preceding summer, family members of the Fitzgerald’s crew were incensed to learn that photos had been taken of dead people on the sunken ship … It continued to do so for seventeen years until it disappeared in the storm of November 10th. Whitefish Point is the site of the Whitefish Point Light Station and Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. Named after its president and chairman of the board, Edmund Fitzgerald, the ship touched waters for the first time in 1958 and was the largest ship in the Great Lakes. Forty years ago, on November 10th 1975 an American Great Lakes Freighter vanished from Lake Superior. The great ship used to carry taconite iron ore from the mines near Duluth, Minnesota to iron works in Detroit, Toledo, and other Great Lakes ports. 30 memorials. The Edmund Fitzgerald was lost with her entire crew of 29 men on Lake Superior November 10, 1975, 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan. Michael Eugene Armagost Sponsored 14 Oct 1938 – 10 Nov 1975. The Edmund Fitzgerald was built at the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge and launched in 1958.