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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Nov 10 09:14:16 2019 The ore-carrying merchant vessel Edmund Fitzgerald went to the bottom of Lake Superior with all hands during a major storm. The shipwreck has since become legend, immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's famous ballad, The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald."And all that remains is the faces and the names Of the wives and the sons and the daughters"... |
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Posted by Dave on Sun Nov 10 09:26:12 2019, in response to 44 Years Ago Today, posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Nov 10 09:14:16 2019. May her crew rest in peace. |
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Posted by AlM on Sun Nov 10 09:37:53 2019, in response to 44 Years Ago Today, posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Nov 10 09:14:16 2019. The first 50 times or so that I heard that song, I thought it was about a long since past sinking. I didn't know until much later that it had been a very recent event at the time he released the song. |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sun Nov 10 10:14:24 2019, in response to 44 Years Ago Today, posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Nov 10 09:14:16 2019. And to think that Gordon Lightfoot's cousin is now the mayor of Chicago. |
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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Nov 10 10:39:24 2019, in response to Re: 44 Years Ago Today, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sun Nov 10 10:14:24 2019. Where did you read or hear that Lori Lighfoot is related to Gordon Lightfoot? |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sun Nov 10 11:05:07 2019, in response to Re: 44 Years Ago Today, posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Nov 10 10:39:24 2019. Lol. Don't you know a joke when you read it. |
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Posted by bingbong on Sun Nov 10 12:07:52 2019, in response to Re: 44 Years Ago Today, posted by AlM on Sun Nov 10 09:37:53 2019. Which made it all the more shocking that there was such a loss of lives. |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Sun Nov 10 13:02:37 2019, in response to 44 Years Ago Today, posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Nov 10 09:14:16 2019. Although a little off topic here's a song I've always liked about the only survivor of another shipwreck. I'm a big fan of the late Irish folk singer Ronnie Drew and here's his rendition of that shipwreck Donegal Danny.
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 10 13:08:38 2019, in response to Re: 44 Years Ago Today, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sun Nov 10 10:14:24 2019. |
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Posted by chicagomotorman on Sun Nov 10 13:15:51 2019, in response to Re: 44 Years Ago Today, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Nov 10 13:08:38 2019. I didn't know I had to have a patent on bits. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Nov 10 14:22:24 2019, in response to Re: 44 Years Ago Today, posted by Jeff Rosen on Sun Nov 10 13:02:37 2019. Founding member of The Dubliners along with the late Luke Kelly. |
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Posted by Train Dude on Sun Nov 10 14:29:09 2019, in response to Re: 44 Years Ago Today, posted by bingbong on Sun Nov 10 12:07:52 2019. Not compared to the General Slocum where 1,021 died within easy viewing of Manhattan. |
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Sun Nov 10 17:04:28 2019, in response to 44 Years Ago Today, posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Nov 10 09:14:16 2019. RIPHC |
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Posted by BILLBKLYN on Sun Nov 10 17:09:11 2019, in response to Re: 44 Years Ago Today, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sun Nov 10 11:05:07 2019. The Subchat Element never does. |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Nov 10 19:00:05 2019, in response to Re: 44 Years Ago Today, posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Nov 10 10:39:24 2019. Seriously? Are you that right? |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Nov 10 19:00:19 2019, in response to Re: 44 Years Ago Today, posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Nov 10 10:39:24 2019. Seriously? Are you that tight? |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun Nov 10 19:54:06 2019, in response to 44 Years Ago Today, posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Nov 10 09:14:16 2019. RIPI never heard about that when it happened. I was in college in Virginia, maybe I missed the news that day. I never really heard Gordon Lightfoot's song until I got Sirius/XM and heard it played on 70s on 7. Seems the mediocre Top 40 station that I was listening to in L. A. in the fall of 1976 (KHJ 930 AM) didn't play it that I heard. They may have been scared off by the length, and you can't really edit a song like that. Still, it was a #2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100... |
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Posted by Joe V on Mon Nov 11 08:27:11 2019, in response to 44 Years Ago Today, posted by JayZeeBMT on Sun Nov 10 09:14:16 2019. I remember that storm since I was at college along the east shore of Lake Erie, and it affected all the Great Lakes. Geology teacher said the winds were so severe, the level of Lake Erie was skewed to be higher at the eastern end near Dunkirk than it was near Toledo on its west end. I also heard that it sunk a ship in Lake Superior, but didn't know the details. |
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Posted by Joe V on Mon Nov 11 08:37:16 2019, in response to Re: 44 Years Ago Today, posted by bingbong on Sun Nov 10 12:07:52 2019. I read this book:https://www.amazon.com/Wreck-Edmund-Fitzgerald-Frederic-Stonehouse/dp/0932212883 It sank in Canadian waters, is legally a burial ground, so it was eventually made illegal to have diving expeditions near it. But preserved bodies are visible, and one lies just outside the vessel. Crew was very every port city in the Great Lakes. They did get the bell to be made as part of a memorial. We had crappy weather forecasting back then with poor radar. The storm came up from Kansas very quickly and hit the Great Lakes. Another ship a half hour ahead of it got through and made it to a calm harbor, but this ship was in poor condition, listed to one side, and had leaks from hatches not bolted down properly, so it took on a lot of water much faster than it could be pumped out. Given the wave action, and the boat's up and down motion, in a down cycle, a wave eventually jack-knifed the rear of it it down further to the point of no return. It split in half. |
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