42nd Anniversary Of The “Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”

It was 42 years ago today (Friday) when the Edmund Fitzgerald freighter sank during a wicked storm on Lake Superior. The boat left the harbor at Superior, bound for Detroit with a shipment of taconite — and it disappeared the next night close to Whitefish Bay on eastern portion of the lake. Twenty-nine men were killed, and it spurred Gordon Lightfoot’s hit song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” As always on this anniversary, a ceremony will take place this (Friday) afteroon at the Split Rock Lighthouse on Minnesota’s North Shore. A bell will sound 29 times to honor each victim — a 30th sounding will remember everyone lost at sea — and then the lighthouse beacon will be lit as a final memorial.