On Nov. 10, 1975 — a half-century ago next Monday — a Great Lakes freighter measuring 729 feet long and weighing 13,000 tons empty and carrying more than twice that weight in iron ore pellets sank, ...
As I write this column, it is the 50th anniversary to the day — Nov. 10, 1975 — of the sinking on Lake Superior of the majestic Great Lakes freighter, Edmund Fitzgerald, amid the storm of the century.