Operation AXIOM
Forty-two years ago to the day, 10 November 1975, twenty-nine souls were lost when the lake freighter S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank amidst a severe storm on Lake Superior. The captain's last radio message, transmitted while the Edmund Fitzgerald battled against thirty-five-foot waves, was, "We are holding our own." In here seventeen-year career, the Edmund Fitzgerald set six seasonal haul records & was a legend in her town time, yet her doomed crew & tragic wreck would be all but forgotten today if not for the popular 1976 song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, to whom our collective memory owes a great debt. Twenty-nine men perished when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank on 10 November 1975, forty-two years ago today.
The Wayback Machine Tour of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
We here at The Secret Base have not always been as faithful as we ought to have been in observing the anniversary of this greatest maritime disaster in the history of the Great Lakes, but we are determined to make amends as best as we are able.
Edmund Fitzgerald '16 | Edmund Fitzgerald '15 | Edmund Fitzgerald '14 | Edmund Fitzgerald '11
Edmund Fitzgerald '10
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