Video: 'Edmund Fitzgerald Disaster'

(Monday, November 10, 1975, shortly after 7:10 p.m. EST) — The 729-foot ore carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald mysteriously sank tonight during a storm on Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, taking the 29 member crew with it.

Singer Gordon Lightfoot would later write a ballad about the ship’s demise.

Video: 'Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'