FORGOTTEN HISTORY: The Edmund Fitzgerald/What Really Happened That Night?

 

 

 

Today marks the 51st anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald,
  during a violent storm on Lake Superior. All 29 crew members were lost.

 

Bell from the SS Edmund Fitzgerald
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
Whitefish Point Light Station
Chippewa County, Michigan
Image courtesy/Wikimedia Commons

 

Not a single distress call was received from the vessel, which was only miles
from the safety of Whitefish Bay. This largest of the Great Lakes freighters
vanished beneath the waves, leaving behind questions which still
remain unanswered more than a half century later.

In this intriguing episode of FORGOTTEN HISTORY, host Mike Droberg
 retraces the final voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald, from her departure carrying
more than 26,000 tons of iron ore pellets, to her desperate struggle against
 towering waves and hurricane-force winds.

The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, later immortalized in the
haunting ballad by the late Canadian singer, Gordon Lightfoot,
remains one of the most enduring stories in
American maritime history.

 

 

The Edmund Fitzgerald: 
What Really Happened That Night
FORGOTTEN HISTORY
(November 5, 2026)