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And every man knew, as the captain did too T'was the witch of November come stealin'- RIP
Posted on 11/10/23 at 8:23 am
Posted on 11/10/23 at 8:23 am
Shipwreck Museum’s 48th Anniversary Edmund Fitzgerald
Memorial Event will be a closed event/ livestreamed in 2023
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum’s annual Edmund Fitzgerald memorial event will be offered as a livestream ceremony this year. The event, scheduled for Friday, November 10, 2023 (7pm), is closed to the public, but will be available on this livestream link that you can watch from your device of choice. The buildings of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point, are not open to the public on November 10, 2023.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
Memorial Event will be a closed event/ livestreamed in 2023
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum’s annual Edmund Fitzgerald memorial event will be offered as a livestream ceremony this year. The event, scheduled for Friday, November 10, 2023 (7pm), is closed to the public, but will be available on this livestream link that you can watch from your device of choice. The buildings of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point, are not open to the public on November 10, 2023.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
This post was edited on 11/10/23 at 8:27 am
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Posted on 11/10/23 at 8:25 am to NorthEndZone
And now we have to do memorials for Gordon Lightfoot.
Posted on 11/10/23 at 8:34 am to NorthEndZone
The cook really pisses me off.
"Oh the weather is bad so I'm not feeding y'all right now"
"Oh hey the boat's about to sink so still not serving any food sorry."
Maybe just do your job you a-hole. On top of everything else you make everybody die hungry. Jerk.
"Oh the weather is bad so I'm not feeding y'all right now"
"Oh hey the boat's about to sink so still not serving any food sorry."
Maybe just do your job you a-hole. On top of everything else you make everybody die hungry. Jerk.
Posted on 11/10/23 at 8:57 am to NorthEndZone
Great and haunting song.
Posted on 11/10/23 at 9:16 am to Huey Lewis
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Maybe just do your job you a-hole.
We could start with the captain on this line of thinking.
Posted on 11/10/23 at 9:22 am to East Coast Band
quote:They have added one toll of the bell, by consent of all the families, in Gordon Lightfoot's honor.
And now we have to do memorials for Gordon Lightfoot.
Posted on 11/10/23 at 9:34 am to RedPop4
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They have added one toll of the bell, by consent of all the families, in Gordon Lightfoot's honor.
So the church bell will chime, 30 times, for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald... And the guy who wrote a song about it?
Posted on 11/10/23 at 9:48 am to Clyde Tipton
If not for that song, the shipwreck would have been lost to memory outside of the victims’s families and sailors on the Great Lakes.
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Posted on 11/10/23 at 9:50 am to Huey Lewis
Well, just climbed out of that wiki worm hole...
Good read.
Good read.
Posted on 11/10/23 at 9:57 am to NorthEndZone
Crazy to think the amount of sailing the goes on between the great lakes. Wisconsin to Cleveland isn't a short boat ride - covering Superior, Huron, and 1/2 of Erie...
Posted on 11/10/23 at 10:42 am to Mid Iowa Tiger
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"Don't allow nobody on deck,"
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"I have a bad list, lost both radars. And am taking heavy seas over the deck. One of the worst seas I've ever been in."
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"We are holding our own." She was never heard from again
The Wiki on this is a good read
Posted on 11/10/23 at 10:53 am to NorthEndZone
Love that song
Posted on 11/10/23 at 11:00 am to Clyde Tipton
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So the church bell will chime, 30 times, for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald... And the guy who wrote a song about it?
Well the church bell it chimed,
Til it rang twenty nine times,
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald...
Well the boat's far below, but the Name most folks know,
Unlike others, all ruined and rotten,
Chime once more for the man,
Who sang out for the damned,
Lightfoot made sure that they weren't forgotten...
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Posted on 11/10/23 at 11:01 am to boxcarbarney
And they asked the Anderson, who had just made it to safety, through all that, to go back out and search for survivors - and they did.
I ask myself if I would have done it, or just brought my guys safely to the dock saying, "I'm not the Coast Guard, my guy."
I ask myself if I would have done it, or just brought my guys safely to the dock saying, "I'm not the Coast Guard, my guy."
Posted on 11/10/23 at 11:07 am to Ace Midnight
Always found it strange of all the shipwrecks off the American coast or waterways, this one which is rather mild in loss of life got all the attention.
Music is a very powerful form of expression. That song created a legend.
Music is a very powerful form of expression. That song created a legend.
Posted on 11/10/23 at 11:22 am to RogerTheShrubber
It was one of the biggest ships of that time and was suddenly lost with all hands.
IIRC, the song was written based off an article published shortly after the wreck, which turned around and got airplay very soon afterward.
It would be analogous to a song coming out about the Harambe the gorilla incident a few weeks after the shooting, to the point where people would have otherwise forgotten Harambe if not for the song. Or the memes.
IIRC, the song was written based off an article published shortly after the wreck, which turned around and got airplay very soon afterward.
It would be analogous to a song coming out about the Harambe the gorilla incident a few weeks after the shooting, to the point where people would have otherwise forgotten Harambe if not for the song. Or the memes.
Posted on 11/10/23 at 11:23 am to RogerTheShrubber
Yes. There was the passenger ferry George Prince accident on October 20, 1976 - less than a year later - upriver from NOLA that is still the worst ferry accident in US history. 78 people lost their lives, but it is rarely mentioned except once a year here in SE Louisiana.
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Posted on 11/10/23 at 11:51 am to NorthEndZone
Credit to Lightfoot… he heard about the wreck before he hopped on a flight, and by the time he had landed he had written this classic hit. Unforgettable song.
Posted on 11/10/23 at 11:53 am to Huey Lewis
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The cook really pisses me off.
He didn't want to waste food. Doesn't he first day "It's too rough to feed ya"?
When my dad was in the Army (early 50s), he was sent to Europe via troop ship across the North Atlantic. He said seas were so rough that you had to eat in pairs...you would hold your tray and the tray of the guy next to you while he ate a few bites, then he would hold yours while you ate a few bites. Otherwise the tray would go sliding off the table and onto the floor.
Posted on 11/10/23 at 11:57 am to NorthEndZone
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Yes. There was the passenger ferry George Prince accident on October 20, 1976 - less than a year later - upriver from NOLA that is still the worst ferry accident in US history. 78 people lost their lives, but it is rarely mentioned except once a year here in SE Louisiana.
The Princess Sophia wreck is super fascinating, would make for a good movie. 340 perished, it sat on a rock floundering all night.
No one has ever heard of it. Every year millions of cruise ship passengers pass right over the top of it, and never know.
This post was edited on 11/10/23 at 12:01 pm
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