Sinking of SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Date: November 10, 1975 • Location: Luce County, United States

SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, claiming all 29 of her crew's lives.

SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there. Her wreck was located in deep water on November 14, 1975, by a U.S. Navy aircraft detecting magnetic anomalies, and soon afterwards found to be in two large pieces.