On this day, November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior during a storm.

[WestMichRad]

1. May they forever rest in peace

I was in Houghton MI, a student at Michigan Tech University, on that fateful day. I remember the daylong howling winds. What a hellacious day! Walking from the dorm to another building for a class, into the wind, took more than twice as long as usual. The university had posted persons at some doors to hold them when opened, as a few doors had been damaged by wind ripping them open.

I did see a couple people get blown off their feet when trying to walk in that wind.

We were not terribly surprised to hear the news that a ship had sunk. There is no safe harbor between Marquette and Sault Ste. Marie, a distance of perhaps 150 miles.