US EditionA Wreck Apart: 50 Years Later, the Edmund Fitzgerald Legend Endures
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a violent gale, killing all 29 crew and leading to strict dive restrictions and lasting cultural impact in Great Lakes history.
- On November 10, 2025, memorials marked 50 years since the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank, with events at Whitefish Point, Michigan, and the National Museum of the Great Lakes in Toledo.
- Meteorologists issued a gale warning on November 9 that was upgraded to a storm warning early on November 10, forecasting 48 to 55-knot winds and 8 to 15-foot waves on Lake Superior.
- A 729-foot freighter, the Edmund Fitzgerald was hauling more than 26,000 tons of taconite when Captain Ernest McSorley reported listing, structural damage, and lost radars before sinking.
- The 1994 expedition and bell recovery divided families and divers, and Ruth Hudson and Fitzgerald family members now oppose more dives, pressing regulators for rigorous permit reviews to protect the wreck in Canadian waters.
- Amid ongoing cultural interest, Gordon Lightfoot's song and books, museums and musicians have kept the Edmund Fitzgerald a lasting icon, while Lake Superior's cold waters slow decay causing saponification.
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald wreck: Listen to a reenactment tonight
The Edmund Fitzgerald lives in our heads as much as reveries about the Roman Empire, and WCCO Radio in Minneapolis has a chance to re-live the historic and horrific event with a live radio play tonight.
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‘The gales of November come early’: Michigan remembers the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 years later
Family members and naval officers stand at the front of the Mariners' Church of Detroit after ringing the church's bell in honor of the crew members of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Nov. 9, 2025. | Photo by Katherine Dailey/Michigan Advance.Fifty years after the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, the 729-foot freighter that sank on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975 on its way from Wisconsin to Detroit, memorials around Michigan and the Great Lakes pai…
Old Mariners’ Church rings fabled bell to mark 50 years since Edmund Fitzgerald sinking
By Myesha Johnson, The Detroit News An historic church in downtown Detroit brought mariners, historians, and family and friends of those lost on the Great Lakes on Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Old Mariners’ Church paid tribute to the 29 mariners lost on the freighter and their families by ringing a replica bell 29 times and a 30th time for all lives lost. “It really has been a privilege to be the b…
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