THE EDMUND FITZGERALD

 

THE EDMUND FITZGERALD

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TWO GREAT YOUTUBE VIDEOS:

 

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Joseph Fulton. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw

 

OFFICIAL YOUTUBE AUDIO. Gordon Lightfoot Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYI

 

IMAGES USED (ALL PUBLIC DOMAIN UNLESS NOTED)

 

SS Edmund Fitzgerald https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald_Upbound_%26_In_Ballast_-_Coast_Guard.jpg

 

Northwestern Mutual Home Office. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northwestern_Mutual_Life_Insurance_Company,_Home_Office,_605-623_North_Broadway,_Milwaukee,_Milwaukee_County,_WI_HABS_WIS,40-MILWA,32-2.tif

 

Taconite From Fitzgerald CCA SA 4.0 I Rmhermen. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taconite_from_Edmund_Fitzgerald.jpg

 

Edmund Fitzgerald. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-edmund-fitzgerald-.jpg

 

Arthur M Anderson CC0 1.0 UPDD Gary Todd.https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ARTHUR_M._ANDERSON_-_5.jpg

 

Great Lakes from Space https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Lakes_from_space_crop_labeled.jpg

 

November Gale. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:November_gale.png

 

Beaufort Scale 12. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beaufort_scale_12_notext.jpg

 

Lake Superior Provincial Park CCA 4.0 I Giorgio Galeotti. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_Superior_-_Lake_Superior_Provincial_Park,_Ontario,_Canada_-_August_1987_02.jpg

 

Great Lakes 2.USACE  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Lakes_2.PNG

 

Henry Chisholm Wreck. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_ChisholmWreck.jpg

 

Sign, Graveyard of the Great Lakes. CCA 2.0 G Deb Nystrom https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sign,_Graveyard_of_the_Great_Lakes,_Whitefish_Point_(37090065095).jpg

 

Edmund Fitzgerald 4. CCA SA 3.0 UNPORTED Greenmars. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund_Fitzgerald,_1971,_4_of_4.JPG

 

SS Arthur M. Anderson. CCA 2.0 G Steve Moses https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_SS_Arthur_M._Anderson_in_Two_Harbors_Sep_1988_(4505652646).jpg

 

Weather November 10 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald Storm  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Weather_Map_from_November_10_1975_Edmund_Fitzgerald_Storm.png

 

Edmund Fitzgerald USACE. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund_Fitzgerald-USACE.jpg

 

Arthur M. Anderson – 4 CC0 1.0 UPDD Gary Todd . https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ARTHUR_M._ANDERSON_-_4.jpg

 

Wind Sinking Edmund Fitzgerald  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wind_sinking_SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald.gif

 

Whitefish Point Light CCA 4.0 I Carlton Hagan https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whitefish_Point_Light_(1_of_1).tif

 

Captain, SS Edmund Fitzgerald  CCA 2.0 G Deb Nystrom https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Captain,_SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald_(37090079715).jpg

 

Arthur M Anderson 1988. CCA 2.0 G Steve Moses https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_SS_Arthur_M._Anderson_in_Two_Harbors_Sep_1988_(4505017793).jpg

 

Edmund Fitzgerald Lifeboat. CCC0 1.0 UPDD Gary Todd https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EDMUND_FITZGERALD_Lifeboat_Displayed_on_VALLEY_CAMP_(Museum).jpg

 

Edmund Fitzgerald Lifeboat.  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund_Fitzgerald_Lifeboat.jpg

 

Edmund Fitzgerald Relative Position. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmond_Fitzgerald_relative_position_of_wreck.jpg

 

Woodrush 1992. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodrush_1992.jpg

 

CURV III. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CURV_III_Navy_photo.jpg

 

Shipwreck Mystery. CCA 2.0 G Deb Nystrom       https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SHIPWRECK_MYSTERY_-_SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald_(37090083175).jpg

 

Sign Detail. CCA 2.0 G Deb Nystrom https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sign_Detail,_SS_EDMUND_FITZGERALD_(36693887290).jpg

 

CSIRO Wild Weather. CCA 3.0 U CSIRO. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSIRO_ScienceImage_8049_Wild_weather_aboard_RV_Southern_Surveyor.jpg

 

Ways Ships In the Great Lakes are Damaged or Sunk. CCA 4.0 I Jonathan Devine https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ways_ships_in_the_Great_Lakes_are_damaged_or_sunk.png

 

Fitz NTSB Sketch. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fitz_NTSB_sketch_of_bow_section_from_ahean.jpg

 

Bell from the Edmund Fitzgerald. CCA 2.0 G Deb Nystrom https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bell_from_the_SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald_(36255067084).jpg

 

Split Rock Lighthouse   CCA 2.0 G  Anita Ritenour https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Split_Rock_Lighthouse_-_November_10,_2009_(4094837910).jpg

 

Gordon Lightfoot c 1965. CCA 2.0 G https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gordon_Lightfoot_at_Apex_Records_luncheon_(19284161630)_(cropped).jpg

Gordon Lightfoot, Toronto 2008  CCA 3.0 U Piedmontstyle@ en.wikipedia

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gordon_Lightfoot.jpg

 

Edmund Fitzgerald 1971 3  CCA SA 3.0 U Greenmars. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund_Fitzgerald,_1971,_3_of_4_(restored).jpg

 

Edmund Fitzgerald 1971 1  CCA SA 3.0 U Greenmars.https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund_Fitzgerald,_1971,_1_of_4.JPG

 

 

   

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING SUGGESTIONS 

 

Foran, Chris. “What you should know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Milwaukee-linked ship that sank and inspired a classic Gordon Lightfoot song”. 3 May 2023  Updated 8 May 2023. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.  Accessed 28 Sept 2023.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/life/green-sheet/2023/05/03/what-to-know-about-the-edmund-fitzgerald-whose-wreck-inspired-song/70174467007/

 

McLeod, Jaimie  “Beware Of The November Witch”. Updated 14 November 2022  The Farmers Almanac Accessed 28 Sept 2023.  https://www.farmersalmanac.com/beware-of-the-november-witch-11581#:~:text=The%20November%20Witch%2C%20sometimes%20phrased,Lakes%20from%20Canada%20every%20autumn.

 

Jaekel, Brielle “Was Gordon Lightfoot’s song about the Edmund Fitzgerald accurate?”  11 May 2023. Freight Waves. Accessed 28 Sept 2023.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/was-gordon-lightfoots-song-about-the-edmund-fitzgerald-accurate

 

Vogel, Hally “42 years ago a violent storm sank the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior”  10 November 2017. WXYZ Detroit News. Accessed 28 Sept 2023.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/42-years-ago-a-violent-storm-sank-the-edmund-fitzgerald-in-lake-superior

 

SS Edmund Fitzgerald” Exploring North Shore.com. Accessed 28 Sept 2023.

https://exploringnorthshore.com/edmund-fitzgerald/

 

Kennedy, William  “The Chilling Reason Why Lake Superior ‘Never Gives Up Her Dead””. 11 Nov 2022. GRUNGE. ACCESSED 28 Sept 2023. https://www.grunge.com/1098572/the-chilling-reason-why-lake-superior-never-gives-up-her-dead/

 

“The Edmund Fitzgerald” Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. Accessed 28 Sept 2023. https://shipwreckmuseum.com/edmund-fitzgerald/

 

YouTube Official Audio – Gordon Lightfoot Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYI

 

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Joseph Fulton. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw

 

DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION COAST GUARD MARINE CASUALTY REPORT

https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/DCO%20Documents/5p/CG-5PC/INV/docs/boards/edmundfitz.pdf

NTSB MARINE ACCIDENT REPORT NTSB-MAR-78-3

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/MAR7803.pdf

 

NOAA THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD. PUBLIC DOMAIN WFG NOAA

https://www.weather.gov/mqt/fitz_fitzb

 

 

 

 

 

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