Ernest McSorley: The Last Captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald - The Sun Times News
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On November 10, 1975, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, one of the largest ships to sail the Great Lakes, flows into Lake Superior.
Fifty-one years ago in November 1975, a storm raged on North America's largest lake with wind speeds of more than 30 meters per second. The freighter Edmund Fitzgerald was battling huge waves on its way toward Detroit when its captain, Ernest M. McSorley, sent his final message. Moments later, the giant steel ship disappeared from radar, and the exact cause of its sinking is still disputed to this day.
Ernest McSorley: The Last Captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald - The Sun Times News
n On November 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior in a powerful storm, taking with it 29 men and cementing its place in Great Lakes history. At the helm was Captain Ernest McSorley, a man whose reputation and career are at the center of John U. Bacon’s book, The Gales of November. ...
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