The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior 49 years ... “They had the best captain on the Great Lakes in Ernest McSorley, and he recruited the best crew on the Great Lakes,” said John Bacon.
a captain who was too cavalier about sailing in storms, and improperly secured hatches, Let’s go over a few of those failures in slightly more detail: First, lake freighters of Edmund Fitzgerald’s ...
Sunday marked the 49th anniversary of the day 29 mariners on the Edmund Fitzgerald freighter lost their lives in a storm on ...