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SS Edmund Fitzgerald
A lake freighter built in 1958, lost on Lake Superior in 1975. The record: “Lost with all hands (29 crew) in a storm, November 10, 1975.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- Great Lakes Engineering Works of River Rouge, Michigan
- Launched
- June 7, 1958
- Completed
- September 24, 1958
- Length
- 729 ft (222 m)
- Beam
- 75 ft (23 m)
- Tonnage
- 13632 GRT; 8713 NRT (from 1969: 8,686 NRT); 25500 DWT
- Propulsion
- Single fixed pitch 19.5 ft propeller
- Crew
- 29
- Fate
- Lost with all hands (29 crew) in a storm, November 10, 1975
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 46.9983° N, 85.1100° W
The story
Read the full history
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- John M. Osborn9.2 mi · lost 1884
- SS John Mitchell11 mi
- Miztec14 mi · lost 1921
- SS Myron14 mi · lost 1919
- SS M.M. Drake15 mi · lost 1901
- SS Vienna19 mi · lost 1892
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Whitefish Point Light17 mi
- Crisp Point Light18 mi
On shore
Worth the stop
- Tahquamenon Falls and Whitefish Point17 mi · park
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Edmund Fitzgerald, retrieved 2026-10-11. We print the fields as recorded and add nothing; a missing field means the record is silent. Tonnage and dimensions were often measured more than one way in their day, so they can differ between sources.
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