The Gales of November

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald  Gordon Lightfoot's song commemorates those who went down in Lake Superior during a November storm.

The Great Lakes are powerful.  Many lives have been lost on these lakes. Read more about the Great Lakes in The Dynamic Great Lakes.

Whitefish Point in Lake Superior: Graveyard of the Great Lakes

Hidden beneathe Lake superior's waters lie the skeletal remains of many shipwrecks.  Sailors call it the graveyard of the Great Lakes because more that 300 ships have been lost there in Lake Superior storms including the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 17 miles off of Whitefish Point.

The 729 foot ore carrier went down in a November storm in 1975 after being buffeted by 30 foot waves and tossed by 70 knot winds.  The ship broke in half and sank with all 29 crewmen.  It now lies in 530 feet of water.

There is a shipwreck museum at Whitefish Point: http//www.shipwreckmuseum.com/

Tribute to the Edmund Fitzgerald: Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes

So many sailors have been lost on the Great Lakes that an

1,850 pound solid marble crucifix was placed 70 feet underwater in

Little Traverse Bay in Lake Michigan, near Petoskey to

commemorate them.  The Dynamic Great Lakes