The Night the Fitz Went Down
Publisher: Lake Superior Port Cities
Published: August 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780942235371
Subjects: United States - State & Local - General; Superior, Lake; History: American; History; Transportation; Ships & Shipbuilding - Shipwrecks; Edmund Fitzgerald (Ship); Shipwrecks
First sentence: Comfortably seated in front of a large bank of windows overlooking the shoreline of his summer home on Lake Vermilion in northeastern Minnesota, Captain Dudley Paquette (retired, 1980, Inland Steel Company fleet) looks back on the events of those fateful two or three days surrounding the 1975 sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and scoffs at the U.S. Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigation conclusion that "ineffective hatch closures" was the primary cause of flooding that led to the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.