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The Edmund Fitzgerald was one of the largest ships to sail the Great Lakes, and its sinking continues to be the lakes' biggest mystery. When the ore carrier dropped to the bottom of Lake Superior during a storm on the evening of Nov. 10, 1975, no mayday had been transmitted and no lifeboats launched; there were no survivors. In his history of the ship and its fate, Schumacher--a Wisconsin writer who is the biographer of Allen Ginsberg, Eric Clapton, and others--gives the story an update by tracing the controversy that resulted when the families of the 29 drowned crew members commissioned a diver to cut the ship's bell from the wreck and replace it with a replica bearing the victims' names. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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