Local Artist Creates Replica of Edmund Fitzgerald

**Pam** · November-10-20, 06:09 PM

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/...nd-fitzgerald/

Today marks the 45th anniversary of one of the most famous Great Lakes shipwrecks: the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald.

**Zacha341** · November-11-20, 08:07 AM

^ This is really awesome. Nice replica there. I wonder if the Author Anderson is back running?

It was laid up for repairs for a while there.

It was the tanker that tried to come to the Big Fitz's rescue and remained running up thru 2019 - one of the older ships still plying the great lakes.

**401don** · November-11-20, 12:26 PM

After all this time I just this year realized Gordon Lightfoot wrote his song one month after the event and then released it a couple of months later. Apparently he wrote it after reading the Newsweek article which came out 2 weeks after the wreck.

**Gistok** · November-11-20, 06:22 PM

Originally Posted by 401don

After all this time I just this year realized Gordon Lightfoot wrote his song one month after the event and then released it a couple of months later. Apparently he wrote it after reading the Newsweek article which came out 2 weeks after the wreck.

Yes, and Detroit's Mariner's Church... is the "Detroit Maritime Cathedral that rang 29 times" in his song.