Friday, October 16, 2026

Question: On Nov. 10, 1975, a Lake Superior gale sank an iron-ore freighter about 17 miles off Whitefish Point, Michigan, taking all 29 crew members with her. Can you name the ship?

Answer: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald. She was hauling taconite from Superior, Wisconsin, bound for Detroit when she went down; her 200-pound bronze bell was recovered in 1995 and now stands as a memorial to the lost crew at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point.