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Fifty Years Later: Remembering the Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Fifty Years Later: Remembering the Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, a massive Great Lakes freighter, in 1975 inspired Gordon Lightfoot's famous ballad and led to improved maritime safety standards, with no major shipwrecks on the Great Lakes in the past 50 years.

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  1. 50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior  NPR
  2. Story and song: Folk singer leads local events commemorating famed ship  Toledo Blade
  3. Weekend Events Honor 50th Anniversary Of Sinking Of Edmund Fitzgerald  WHMI
  4. All That Remains: Tracing the Edmund Fitzgerald’s final hours  Upper Michigan's Source
  5. The ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’ Sank Half a Century Ago. We’re Still Fascinated  Smithsonian Magazine

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