Fitzgerald's wife, Elizabeth, christened it when it launched June 7, After a couple of months of finishing work, the 7,ton freighter set out Aug. It clipped along at 16 miles per hour, topping by about 5 mph the fastest ships on the Great Lakes. The Fitz was the largest vessel on the lakes for a little more than a year, until the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co. Ryerson for Inland Steel Corp. The Ryerson was a foot longer than the Fitz.
It opened an office in Minnesota in and in Iowa in , according to the company's website. Iowa formed its own association of Northwestern Mutual agents, which held annual conventions throughout the state. Cedar Rapids banker and businessman C.
Van Vechten was associated with Northwestern Mutual from until he retired in Cedar Rapids utility executive Sutherland C. Dows was a trustee of the company in the s.
Fitzgerald joined Northwestern Mutual Life in on a part-time basis. He became vice president in and company president in During his years as a Northwestern executive, Fitzgerald made numerous trips to Iowa for company conventions, including one to Cedar Rapids in when he was a featured speaker - along with local businessman Robert Armstrong - at a fundraiser to benefit expansion of Cedar Rapids' two hospitals.
Therefore, it is advisable to construct a hospital that will require as low operating expenses as possible and still give satisfactory services. Fitzgerald returned to speak at the 68th All-Iowa meeting of Northwestern agents in Waterloo in , the same year the company's biggest investment, the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald, was launched. Coast Guard resulted in 15 recommendations for regulation changes.
Coast Guard 19 recommendations. The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald has been memorialized in numerous ways over the decades. Aside from traditional ceremonies, there are books, plays, songs, and TV specials that remember the shipwreck. Every year on Nov. The museum is where the recovered bell from the ship is on display. During the ceremony, the bell rings 29 times for each of the lost crew members, and their surviving family members have the opportunity to participate.
The bell also rings a 30th time in remembrance of the estimated 30, people who have lost their lives on the Great Lakes. Additionally, some of the surviving family members gather to mark special events or anniversaries related to the Fitzgerald. For instance, a consecration ceremony was held over the wreckage on Lake Superior and a dozen families attended.
Read more about how the Edmund Fitzgerald is remembered here. He had some experience sailing the Great Lakes and knows how unpredictable the weather can be.
Although the lyrics tell a true story, Lightfoot took some creative liberties to make the seven verses rhyme. Since releasing the song in , he has changed some of the lyrics for live performances because a couple of them offended a few people. It reached No. Cash Box Top The song was nominated for two Grammy Awards, too. Even though it was about 6. The lyrics were just too important.
Great Lakes Brewing Co. This tribute to the lost crew has notes of bittersweet chocolate and coffee, and it pairs well with chocolate and oysters. It has won numerous awards, and you can cook with it. Included are a spiral-bound instruction booklet and a bamboo wooden box. Along with these products, you can find a lot of Edmund Fitzgerald merchandise on Etsy.
Sellers create models, T-shirts, perfume bottles, blankets, vinyl decals, art pieces, coasters, and so much more.
We may not have fit everything there is to know about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in this single post, but you could learn even more from the GLSHS. Founded in , its mission is to preserve lighthouses and honor the brave lives lost on Lake Superior. Marie — all of which offer educational and informational exhibits. Additionally, the GLSHS continues to perform diving and underwater research as well as research into the stories of shipwrecks on the lake.
Its Research Vessel David Boyd is a foot boat equipped with a side scan sonar, remotely operated vehicle, advanced navigation electronics, underwater digital imaging equipment, and digital surface interface data storage. On top of that, Amazon has a plethora of DVDs and books that you can purchase:.
The ship sank on Nov. The exact cause of the shipwreck has never been officially pinpointed. The freighter rests feet below the surface of Lake Superior. Also, the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy remains a mystery and the most recent disaster on Lake Superior — some of the surviving family members of the lost crew are still alive today. All 29 crew members died during the shipwreck, and none of their bodies were recovered from the wreckage.
The Coast Guard conducted an extensive and thorough search. On November 14, a U. Navy plane equipped with a magnetic anomaly detector located a strong contact 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point. During the following three days, the Coast Guard cutter Woodrush, using a sidescan sonar, located two large pieces of wreckage in the same area. Another sonar survey was conducted November The following May, , Woodrush was again on the scene to conduct a third sidescan sonar survey.
Contacts were strong enough to bring in the U. On April 15, the U. Edmund Fitzgerald, official number , sinking in Lake Superior on 10 November with loss of life.
Edmund Fitzgerald was the loss of buoyancy and stability resulting from massive flooding of the cargo hold. The flooding of the cargo hold took place through ineffective hatch closures as boarding seas rolled along the spar deck. Cooper believes that from that point on, McSorley knew he was sinking. Conflicting theories about the cause of the tragedy remain active today.
But what caused the ship to take on water, enough to lose buoyancy and dive to the bottom so quickly, without a single cry for help, cannot be determined. Twenty-nine men were lost when the Fitzgerald went down. There is absolutely no conclusive evidence to determine the cause of the sinking. The bell of the ship is now on display in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum as a memorial to her lost crew. It still sits on the bottom of Lake Superior at feet deep.
Conditions on the Great Lakes can be extremely treacherous and can produce high waves. Steep, short-period waves can be particularly hazardous to large ships such as the Fitzgerald, especially when they exceed 5 meters 16 feet in height. The height of waves generated on the lakes is primarily a function of wind speed and the fetch, or distance, over which they are generated.
Of secondary yet substantial importance is the degree of surface-layer stability present over the lake. Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes in surface area and volume.
It has the capacity to contain the water volume of the four other lakes plus three additional Lake Eries. Given its immense size, it is capable of sustaining waves in excess of 10 meters 33 feet , about the height of a four-story home. During the early morning of November 9, , a low-pressure system began to take shape in the southern plains.
This storm would move northeast and intensify considerably over the next 36 hours as it moved into the Great Lakes region. During that time, the Edmund Fitzgerald and another vessel, the Arthur M.
Anderson, departed ports on western Lake Superior to begin their voyages east to the Sault Ste.
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