Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Subtitle: Eyewitness Accounts from the U.S. Coast Guard Hearings
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781517906443
Subjects: United states, coast guard; Courts-martial and courts of inquiry; Shipwrecks; Marine accidents
Description: The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most famous shipwreck stories in Great Lakes history. It is also one of maritime lore's great mysteries, the details of its disappearance as obscure now as on that fateful November day in 1975. The investigation into the wreck, resulting in a controversial final report, generated more than 3,000 pages of documentation, a mere fraction of which has been made available to the public. In The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Michael Schumacher mines this rich resource to produce the first-ever documentary account, a companion to his popular narrative Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.