Gales of November: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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On November 10, 1975, the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a fierce storm on Lake Superior, taking all twenty-nine crew members with her. Robert J. Hemming's account reconstructs the final voyage of the ore carrier, the weather that overtook it, and the messages exchanged with other ships and shore stations in the hours before it vanished. He also examines the search for wreckage and the official inquiry that followed, weighing what was known, what remained uncertain, and the theories put forward to explain why such a large vessel could go down so quickly. For anyone drawn to maritime disasters, it offers a sober and absorbing look at one of the Great Lakes' most famous losses.
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