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Edmund Fitzgerald - Gitche Gumee |
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Date 9-28-05 September 30, 2005 NIGHT WATCH FOR THE EDMUND FITZGERALD On Thursday November 10,
2005 the Dossin Great Lakes Museum and the Great Lakes Maritime Institute
will hold a special remembrance for the 30th Anniversary of the loss
of the Great Lakes freighter S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald. From 4:30 - 8:00
pm that evening events will recall that sailors who sail the inland
seas, are sometimes placed in peril. The events will begin at 4:30 by
placing of 29 illuminated lanterns around the anchor of the S.S. Edmund
Fitzgerald that rests in the yard of the Dossin Museum on Belle Isle.
At 5:00 pm the Great Lakes balladeer Lee Murdock will begin a concert
in the DeRoy Hall Auditorium. His songs of the Great Lakes sailors and
their sail and steam vessels have long been a remembrance of the difficulties
working the inland seas. At 6:30 pm Captain Donald Erickson of the Ford
Fleet will recount the night 30 years prior that his crew of the S.S.
William Clay Ford went into the stormy seas north of White Fish Point
to search for and survivors of the lost Fitzgerald. At 7:10 pm the names
of the lost crew members will be read and ship's bells will be tolled.
This will be followed by Bishop Ingalls of Mariner's Church whose ringing
of the church bells is part of Gordon Lightfoot's famous ballad on the
loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald. There is limited seating, tickets are
$25.00 for the public, Great Lakes Maritime Institute and Detroit Historical
Society Members $20.00. The event will also be webcast on www.glmi.org.
The GLMI that is sponsoring the webcast will be charged for each person
on line, and would appreciate a donation to offset the bringing of this
special program to numerous home computers. Tickets can be secured by
calling the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on weekends - 313 -852-4051 or
during the week calling John Polacsek at 313 -297-8366. The Dossin Great
Lakes Museum is located at 100 Strand Drive on Belle Isle, Detroit,
Michigan and is open Weekends from 11 - 5.
Taconite At the time of her launch, the Fitzgerald was the largest carrier on the Great Lakes, and remained so until 1971. She weighed 13,632 tons and measured 729 feet long by 75 feet wide. Fully loaded, the Fitzgerald was capable of carrying 27,500 tons, powered by a 7,500 horsepower steam turbine engine that could move her along at up to 20 mph. In 1964, the Edmund Fitzgerald became the first carrier to haul more than one million tons of iron ore pellets (taconite) through the locks at Sault Ste. Marie, earning her the nicknames the "Big Fitz" and "The Pride of the American Flag". Sailors considered themselves privileged to serve aboard her.
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