SS Edmund Fitzgerald
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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, sh
SS Edmund Fitzgerald in 1971
SS Edmund Fitzgerald in ballast, heading for the taconite mines
SS Edmund Fitzgerald under way
One of Edmund Fitzgerald's lifeboats, on display at the Valley Camp museum ship
Gordon Lightfoot
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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. was a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success and helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Widely considered one of Canada's greatest songw
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
…or suffered from a combination of these. The disaster is one of the best-known in the history of Great Lakes shipping, in part because Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot made it the subject of his 1976 popular ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". Lightfoot wrote the hit song after reading an article, "The Cruelest…
Lightfoot performing in Interlochen, Michigan, in 2009
Lightfoot, right, at a music industry function in Toronto in 1965
Lightfoot, 1965
Gordon Lightfoot in concert in San Diego in 1974