Operation AXIOM
Forty-three 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-three years ago today.
The Wayback Machine Tour of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Edmund Fitzgerald '17 | Edmund Fitzgerald '16
Edmund Fitzgerald '15 | Edmund Fitzgerald '14
Edmund Fitzgerald '11 | Edmund Fitzgerald '10
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