This is a repost of a blog I wrote a couple years back:
On November 10, 1975 the Great Lakes bulk cargo vessel [I]SS Edmund Fitzgerald [/I]carrying a cargo of taconite pellets (iron-bearing flint-like rock used in steelmaking) sank with the loss of all 29 crewmembers in eastern Lake Superior about 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay, Michigan during a severe storm. The vessel sank quickly without sending a distress signal and the story of this tragedy inspired Gordon Lightfoot to write his most famous song: [B]“Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”.
http://oceanweatherservices.com/blog1/2011/11/03/gales-of-november/#more-201[/B]