GREAT LAKES SHIPWRECK MUSEUM (Whitefish Point, MI)

Of the 6,000 ships lost on the Great Lakes, the legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald remains the most mysterious and controversial. Folksinger Gordon Lightfoot inspired interest in it with his 1976 ballad, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." The Edmund Fitzgerald was lost with her entire crew of 29 men on Lake Superior November 10, 1975, 17 miles N/NW of Whitefish Point, Michigan.

On July 4, 1995, the 200-pound bronze bell was recovered from the wreckage, and is now on display in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum as a memorial to her lost crew. In place of the recovered bell, they left another bell inscribed with the names of all the men who lost their lives that day.
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Artifacts recovered from the Edmund Fitzgerald
There were many other displays of
shipwrecks in the museum

Whitefish Point Light Station

The rudder from the M.M. Drake (1882 - 1901)

Beautiful Lake Superior