Wikimedia Forty years ago today, the Edmund Fitzgerald, one of the largest ships on the Great Lakes, broke apart and sank to the bottom of Lake Superior. She was the largest ship to go down in the Great Lakes, and the 29 men on her crew died, their bodies never recovered.
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Tue, 11/10/2015 - 2:25pm
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