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The 729-foot iron ore freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald, sinks in Lake Superior during a severe storm on November 10, 1975, resulting in the loss of all 29 crew members. The sinking was famously documented in Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 song; “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".
The exact cause of the sinking is still debated, but it is known that the ship carrying a cargo of taconite pellets, The ship was struck by enormous waves, sinking in a blinding snowstorm as it sustained damage and lost its radar just before it disappeared from radar screens. The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was named after Edmund Fitzgerald, the president and later chairman of the board of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, which commissioned the ship.
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