Fact Slap 👋 Today in 1975, the American Great Lakes freighter SS EDMUND FITZGERALD sinks with the loss of all hands during a storm. She was launched in 1968 and at the time was the largest ship operating on the Great Lakes. For 17 years, Edmund Fitzgerald carried taconite (a variety of iron ore) from mines along the Minnesota Iron Range near Duluth, Minnesota, to iron works in Detroit, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; and other Great Lakes ports. She was well known on the Lakes, not just for her size bu

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