Anderson, which had departed Two Harbors, Minnesota under Captain Bernie Cooper. Departing Superior about 2:30 pm, she was soon joined by the Arthur M. McSorley had loaded her with 26,116 long tons of taconite pellets, made of processed iron ore, heated and rolled into marble-size balls. The final voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald began Novemat the Burlington Northern Railroad Dock No.1, Superior, Wisconsin. Learn some of the “odd” things that happened during the launch of the Fitzgerald in 1958 in this short story! On NovemFitzgerald was to transport a load of taconite from Superior, Wisconsin, to Zug Island, Detroit, Michigan. She was usually empty on her return trip to Silver Bay. The Fitzgerald’s normal course during her productive life took her between Silver Bay, Minnesota, where she loaded taconite, to steel mills on the lower lakes in the Detroit and Toledo area. At 729 feet and 13,632 gross tons she was the largest ship on the Great Lakes, for thirteen years, until 1971. Northwestern Mutual placed her under permanent charter to the Columbia Transportation Division of Oglebay Norton Company, Cleveland, Ohio. Named after the President and Chairman of the Board of Northwestern Mutual, Fitzgerald was launched Jat River Rouge, Michigan. Northwestern Mutual contracted with Great Lakes Engineering Works of Ecorse, Michigan to construct a “maximum sized” Great Lakes bulk carrier. Edmund Fitzgerald was conceived as a business enterprise of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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