Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot 🇨🇦

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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC OOnt (Nov. 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Lightfoot

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1. More, the shipwreck in 1975, Lightfoot's memorial song

- The Song, Wiki.
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a 1976 hit song written, composed and performed by the Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to memorialize the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. Lightfoot considered this song to be his finest work.

Lyrics - The song chronicles the final voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald as it succumbed to a massive late-season storm and sank in Lake Superior with the loss of all 29 crewmen. Lightfoot drew inspiration from news reports he gathered in the immediate aftermath, particularly "The Cruelest Month", published in Newsweek magazine's November 24, 1975, issue. Lightfoot's passion for recreational sailing on the Great Lakes informs his ballad's verses throughout...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Edmund_Fitzgerald
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- Sinking of the Ship, Wiki, Ed.
SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on Nov. 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there. She was located in deep water (§ Wreck discovery below) on Nov. 14, 1975, by a U.S. Navy aircraft detecting magnetic anomalies, and found soon afterwards to be in two large pieces.

For 17 years, Edmund Fitzgerald carried taconite (a variety of iron ore) from mines near Duluth, Minnesota, to iron works in Detroit, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; and other Great Lakes ports. As a workhorse, she set seasonal haul records 6 times, often breaking her own record. Captain Peter Pulcer was known for piping music day or night over the ship's intercom while passing through the St. Clair and Detroit rivers (between Lake Huron and Lake Erie), and entertaining spectators at the Soo Locks (between Lakes Superior and Huron) with a running commentary about the ship.

Her size, record-breaking performance, and "DJ captain" endeared Edmund Fitzgerald to boat watchers.

.. The sinking led to changes in Great Lakes shipping regulations and practices that included mandatory survival suits, depth finders, positioning systems, increased freeboard, and more frequent inspection of vessels...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald