![]() Cooper strained to see the Fitzgerald when visibility improved, but saw no trace of the ship and reported it missing to the Coast Guard. It was the last time anyone ever heard from the Edmund Fitzgerald.Ĭooper lost sight of the Fitzgerald in a snow squall around 7:15 p.m., and the ship disappeared from Cooper's radar by 7:25 p.m. when Cooper asked how the Fitz was faring. McSorely reported "we are holding our own" at 7:10 p.m. McSorely radioed Cooper to report loss of his ship's radar, asking Cooper to provide navigational information as both headed to the safety of Whitefish Point in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Anderson, spoke frequently with the Fitzgerald's Captain McSorely during the storm. ![]() Soon, 25-foot-tall waves and 90-mile-per hour winds accompanied heavy snow over the lake.Ĭaptain Cooper, sailing nearby with ore carrier Arthur M. departure, upgrading those to storm warnings by November 10. The Edmund Fitzgerald departed Superior, Wisconsin, on November 9, 1975, with 26,116 tons of taconite pellets bound for Zug Island on the Detroit River.įorecasters issued gale warnings for Lake Superior within 20 minutes of the Edmund Fitzgerald's 2:20 p.m. Today the anchor is on the grounds of Detroit's Dossin Great Lakes Museum. The ship made 748 safe round trips from western Lake Superior to Detroit and Cleveland although it lost its bow anchor in 1974 about one mile west of Belle Isle on the Detroit River. ![]() Northwestern's board named it for Fitzgerald, who attended the ship's launch into the Detroit River on June 8, 1958. Great Lakes Engineering Works designed and built the ship, a 729-foot-long, 13,632-ton behemoth which took 1,000 men and $8.4 million to complete. He joined the board of Northwestern Mutual in 1933, becoming its chairman in 1958.įitzgerald convinced Northwestern Mutual to finance an ore carrier. Fitzgerald, an artillery captain during World War I and Yale graduate, worked at Milwaukee Malleable Iron Company. His family owned a shipyard, and his five great-uncles were Great Lakes mariners. Thank you for understanding.The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior remains one of the Great Lakes' most haunting mysteries, and the story is as compelling to me now as when it happened 35 years ago.Įdmund Fitzgerald was a civic leader, community benefactor, and business man from Milwaukee. However, I have uploaded four blueprints in the photo gallery of this project which include the forward and aft deck layouts for anyone who wants to do the interior themselves. I'm very sorry, but it would of been impossible for me to add the accurate interior in such limited spaces, so there is no interior unfortunately. THINGS MAY LOOK ODD!ĭISCLAIMER NOTE* FOR ALL OLDER MC-EDIT VERSIONS WHEN PUTTING THE SCHEMATIC INTO YOUR WORLD, BE SURE TO FACE THE SHIP NORTH OR SOUTH, OTHER WISE MC-EDIT WILL FACE THE FENCE GATES, TRAPDOORS, AND OTHER ENTITY UUIDs IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!! NOTE* A CUSTOM RESOURCE PACK WAS USED IN THE MAKING OF THIS PROJECT. Thankyou for viewing! I hope you enjoy this project! But even though we don't know how she really sank, the "Mighty Fitz" and the crew of 29 men who died with her will never be forgotten. And possibly there could of been problems with design flaws and loose cargo hatches. Others say a big rogue wave collapsed on her and took her underwater. Some searchers say her hull split in half like the Daniel J. ![]() It is still a mystery how the Edmund Fitzgerald really sank and there are many theories about how she did. When she sank on November 10th, 1975, she was carrying a full load over her DWT capacity and the weight of the cargo was possibly one reason she went under. She carried 26,000 tons of iron ore with a full load. She was built in 1958 and crashed in 1975 when she was taken over by a storm. Since she was one of the biggest freighters ever used on the Great Lakes, and having a 729 foot long hull,she was given the nickname "Titanic of the Great Lakes". This ship was an iron ore freighter that steamed on Lake Superior in the 1960s and early 70s. This is my own design of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald A.K.A.
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