Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The Michigan Maritime Museum will be hosting a Gales of November event on November 10, 2015 to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Guest speaker Jim Spurr will present his "Ice Water Mansions" lecture pertaining to the perils of a November passage on Lake Superior. It begins with the first European shipwreck on Lake Superior in 1816, continues with two sister ships that went down in the same storm a century later, and concludes with a discussion on the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975. Underwater video footage of the Fitzgerald, provided by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Whitefish Point, will be on display during the event.

November 10, 2015 marks the 40th anniversary of the fateful night for the freighter. Traditionally, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum honors the lives lost on the Edmund Fitzgerald by holding an event each year on the anniversary date and ringing the Fitzgerald's bell for each soul aboard. We would like to honor the memory of those men through this collaborative event with the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum during this important anniversary. Join us for an evening to commemorate the Fitzgerald and other vessels that could not outrun the Gales of November.

Light refreshments will be provided.