The Edmund Fitzgerald was one of the most famous ships that ever sailed lake Superior. The Fitzgerald was one of the fastest ships that sailed Superior, she often broke her own records and set new ones.The Fitzgerald was the largest freshwater ship in history and was just 140 feet shorter than the Titanic. The Fitzgerald or Fitz ( thats was what the crew called her) was built in 1958. She was put in the water on June 8th 1958. In his book Andrew Kantar says “The Edmund Fitzgerald was named after the wife of the president of the NMI (Northwestern Mutual Insurance). (5). The fitz was the pride of America of the american side (Gordon Lightfoot). The Fitzgerald had a good crew that was with her from 17 years. The crew called the Fitzgerald they’re lives. For the crew there were Captain Ernest Mcsorley, John, James, Michael, George, Edward, Thomas, Russell, Oliver, Frederick, Thomas B, Thomas D, Nolan, Ransom, Bruce, Allen, Gordon, Joseph, Eugene, Karl, John P, Robert, Paul, John S, William, Mark, Ralph, David, Blaine made up the crew.
On October 31st, the Fitz was on her last trip for the season, but did the captain know it would be the last for him and the crew? At 8:30 A.M, november 8th, the FItz was loaded with 26,000 tons of taconite pellets(Anderson 10) “With a load of Iron ore Twenty-six thousand tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty” (Gordon Lightfoot http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/) They were going across Lake Superior from Superior Wisconsin to WhiteFish Point Michigan which is 350 miles southeast. The one thing the captain didn’t know was that there was a storm coming there way from wisconsin up to canada with hurricane speed winds, the worst storm in history. so the storm hit them...
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...ted on live TV the stress was released as the bell broke the surface. The bell was replace with a new one with the names of crew members engraved on it. The Fitzgeralds bell was polished and was donated to the maritimes sailors cathedral. Every year the names of the sailors was called out and the bell rung 29 times for each man on the Fitzgerald and once for every sailor that had ever died when the gales of November came. The story of the Fitzgerald was turned into a song called “ The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot. Now because of the wreck of the Fitzgerald no boat, vessel, or freighter is allowed to sail in November. underneath the bow of the ship. The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee. The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turns gloomy. (Gordon Lightfoot)
the North Atlantic waters. At 11:40 P.M. an ice berg was spotted and as the ship made a rapid
But nearly as soon as Marion's dreams of sailing became reality, the reality became a nightmare. On the voyage home, a whale rammed the schooner, ripping the seams and sending water into the hold. Before the schooner went down, the captain, al...
Fitzgerald, F S, and Matthew J. Bruccoli. The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New
But even though you packed and then overpacked for a destination, something unexpected can always happen. In the story, The Voyage of the James Caird, Ernest Shackleton and his men could not have prepared more than they did for their ship to sink in the Arctic Circle. They piled aboard a lifeboat where they sailed to reach a whaling station but the journey was very hard on them. Their equipment just wasn’t enough to keep up with what the ocean was throwing at them. Worsley, one of the members on the boat with them wrote that their while their coats kept them warm against the wind, they did nothing against the freezing temperature of the water splashing on their backs every five seconds.
Here I think would be a good place to look at some background regarding the ship. The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald was conceived as a business enterprise of the Northern Mutual Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Northern Mutual contracted with Great Lakes Engineering Works of Ecorse, Michigan to construct a “maximum sized” Great Lakes bulk carrier. The keel was laid on August 7, 1957 as hull no. 301.
Some of the captain?s crew began to regret their situation and even the captain had some anxious thoughts. They realized that it could be a dead end. They were uncertain where to go and of their situation. Suddenly, they noticed something was passing by them at a distance of half a mile. ? We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, passing towards the north.?
The legendary Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald reflects onto his readers and exceptional childhood and educational background emmating from his life experiences. It is believed The Great Gatsby reflects his point of view of his fortunate life as an author. F. Scott Fitzgerald is an author of many short stories and novels in Americas history primarily however his works explimfied the era of the nineteen twenties.
In 1915, while amidst their expedition, the ship, Endurance, become lodged in a pack of ice. They tried to wait it out, through a winter of darkness, and even though the Endurance was drifting northward, the ice was too much for the Endurance to withstand. The ice broke the Endurance in half, forcing the dogs and crew off the ship. They would end up spending months trying to find land.
The “Jazz Age” was a term F. Scott Fitzgerald coined to describe the ostentatious era that began after World War I during the Roaring Twenties. It was a joyous time full of great prosperity. He published many famous books during this time like The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. Fitzgerald claimed to know a great deal about the glitz and glamour of the Roaring Twenties, while he never actually experienced those aspects himself. Although F. Scott Fitzgerald had many struggles with alcoholism and his marriage, he is considered to be one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1869, in St. Paul Minnesota and died December 21, 1940 in Hollywood by heart attack. He was the son of Edward Fitzgerald and Mary McQuillan. Neither of them were writers or had anything to do with writing for that matter so where F. Scott got his writing skills from is unknown, but it likely came from his father’s side for his father’s great-great-grandfather was the brother of Francis Scott key’s grandfather. Francis Scott Key is who F. Scott Fitzgerald is named after. He also wrote the “Star Spangle Banner”. F. Scott was the pride and joy of his parents, especially his mother; she would often show him off and make him sing and entertain when family or company came to visit. He did this till he was 15. His father was an alcoholic but had great manners that he passed on to his son. But even with being the apple in his parent’s eye he had little respect for them; he believed he was of royal blood and that he was dropped off on the Fitzgerald’s doorstep. Ever since F. Scott was a child he believed he was meant for something more, but he had no idea he’d become an American literally legend. (Donaldson)
All 29 sailors perished with the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10th 1975. If you want to learn more about the ship you can visit the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point. A place where they proudly displayed the recovered ships bell in remembrance of the lost sailors and a place that is close to the final resting place of the ship.
...ure itself. Things began to turned back to as they were and the mariner was rescued, “But soon I heard the dash of oars, I heard the Pilot's cheer; my head was turned perforce away and I saw a boat appear” (135-137). He was very happy and fearful at the same time when they appeared, as he feared it may have been another sin coming upon him.
...tself 500ft below the water, none of them have been proven indefinitely. Whether the ship crossed the Superior Shoal, with water as shallow as 22 feet; or the ship suffered a stress fracture and broke apart on the surface, there will always be one more possibility regarding the Fitzgerald’s demise. For instance, the sip could have also succumbed to the forces of the Three Sisters, a Lake Superior phenomenon, consisting of massive waves. Ultimately, each of these current theories are merely conjectures, and since each holds the possibility of being true, the cause of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking is an ongoing mystery, one that has and will continue to bring about many theories. Finally, as a result of the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the 30 million people who lived next to the great lakes would forever look across their waters with renewed respect.
On Wednesday February 12 of 1890 F. Scott Fitzgerald's parents were married in Washington D.C. Six years later on September 24, 1896 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born at his home 481 Laurel Ave. in St. Paul, Minnesota. His two infant older sisters had died from a violent influenza so that by the time Fitzgerald came along Mollie Fitzgerald had become the proverbial nightmare that known as an overprotective mother. Fitzgerald's mother was no traditional mother though, for she was known for her eccentricities. These eccentricities disturbed young Scott's life, "Fitzgerald later described his mother as 'half insane with pathological nervous worry'" (Bruccoli 15), but nothing worried anyone in the family so much as his father's failure to hold down a job. It was because his father lost his job as a wicker furniture manufacturer and salesman the family was forced to move from St. Paul to Buffalo in April of 1898, where his father began work for Proctor and Gamble. In January of 1901 the family moved from Buffalo to Syracuse where Edward had been transferred by his employer and where, on Sunday July 21, 1901 Scott's younger sister Annabel was born. Just two years later the family was back in Buffalo and just five years after that the family had returned to St. Paul and Grandma McQuillan's money.
In the movie The Finest Hours (2016), a group of four men from the Coast Guard try to hunt down a ship that had split in half because of the strong waves caused by a massive winter storm. During the attempted rescue, the Coast Guard crew faced some difficulties. The large waves almost caused them to get stranded too. The waves knocked off their compass. Determined to get the job done, the crew decided to continue their rescue mission. Without a compass it was nearly impossible to find the ship and impossible for anyone to find them if they ship wreck because of the storm. With all the odds against them, the crew managed to find the wrecked ship and save all but one survivor. The crew managed to return home, in the