"The 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. When launched on June 8, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. Nicknamed the "Mighty Fitz", "Fitz", or "Big Fitz", the ship suffered a series of mishaps during her launch: it took three attempts to break the champagne bottle used to christen her, and she collided with a pier when she entered the water."
"The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the best-known disasters in the history of Great Lakes shipping. Gordon Lightfoot made it the subject of his 1976 hit song 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'."
The massive bow anchor of the legendary SS Edmund Fitzgerald was lost in the Detroit River (in 1974).
It was recovered in 1992 and is currently on display outside the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle.
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