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The legend lives on....

cudabee

cudabee

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Apart from politics, court trials and all other haywire things that are happening in our Nation right now, did anyone remember the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald? Always an amazing story, legend, etc. Seems like I have to re-read it every year out of personal interest. I sure can remember what I was doing when it happened. Anyway, just wondering.
 
Good question, but I do know that they named it due to being Superior in size to the other Great Lakes
(Homes)
Huron
Ontario
Michigan
Erie
Superior
 
I've been to the great lakes shipwreck museum several times, including this past October, where the bell from the big Fitz is kept.

If you never been there or to lake superior put it on your bucket list.
 
6 years ago I went to the Maritime Museum in Ashtabula and you just marvel that they were able to get those big things in and out of the harbor.
 
maxwedgechar said:
6 years ago I went to the Maritime Museum in Ashtabula and you just marvel that they were able to get those big things in and out of the harbor.
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Big Fits was quite a ship. Hope mercy was given to the lost souls...
I live in the Ashtabula Harbor a few blocks from that museum. Been there many times. Am amazed at some ships that dock throughout the summer. The Techumseh is currently sitting in one of the ports, slated for demolition due to an engine fire. She's a big ship with over a 70' beam.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh_(lake_freighter)
 
If you ever get a chance to go to the Soo Locks, it's something to see when 1000' freighters move through there.
 
@Grabbergreendream My father served on the USS Ashtabula right after WWII, 1946-49. At one of the reunions he won a painting of the ship in a raffle. When he died I contacted the museum and they were happy to have the painting. My wife and I visited Ashtabula and spent a couple of hours at the museum.
 
wasn't really that long ago
seems like it was way farther back in time
sunk Nov. 9th 1975
 
NTOLERANCE said:
I've been to the great lakes shipwreck museum several times, including this past October, where the bell from the big Fitz is kept.

If you never been there or to lake superior put it on your bucket list.
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Wife and I went there a couple of years ago. Very interesting history of our Great Lakes, much that we weren't aware of.
 
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