This week was the 50th Anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and this tragic story has been highlighted on news stories and podcasts across the country. If you haven’t heard the story, on November 9, 1975, the “Big Fitz” headed out from Superior, Wisconsin on its way to Detroit, Michigan with a full cargo of taconite ore pellets. On November 10, she was sailing in a storm and was lost. To this day the exact cause of the sinking is unknown, but we do know that she was found in two pieces on the bottom of Lake Superior and that her entire crew of 29 was lost.
As horrific as this story is, I think that we sometimes forget, or maybe have never heard, the stories of some of the worst shipwrecks in history. On this bonus episode of the podcast I will tell you the tales of 5 shipwrecks worse than the Edmund Fitzgerald that you have probably never heard of. Listen to hear the stories of the Mont Blanc, the Artic, the Eastland, the Sultana, and the Wilhelm Gustloff.
And to all those lost… “Fair winds and following seas.”
