Edmund Fitzgerald (Ship)

Photocopy of deposition given by George H. Burgner on December 13th, 1977, newspaper article about the EDMUND FITZGERALD from the Minneapolis Star Tribune November 10, 1997, 50th anniversary program set for November 10, 2008, memories April 25, 2008, and letter a letter from the donor summarizing and contextualizing the contents of this collection.

Article clippings from a variety of newspapers covering the sinking of the EDMUND FITZGERALD and later news coverage of the aftermath and investigation into its loss.

Naval architectural drawings for most of the vessels built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works, as well as construction specifications documents for a handful of them. Includes the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Letter concerns navigation season extension on the Great Lakes and shipping safety.

The collection contains transcripts, exhibits, and supplementary items from the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation convened on November 18, 1975, eight days after the EDMUND FITZGERALD sank in Lake Superior with her entire crew of twenty-nine men. The purpose of the inquiry was to determine the causes of the tragedy and to examine safety procedures. Indexes are available for exhibits and testimony in addition to an index for each of the seven volumes of the transcript.

Account of the conditions surrounding the sinking of the EDMUND FITZGERALD in Lake Superior, November 10, 1975. Delivered at a meeting of Wisconsin Marine Historical Society, Milwaukee, WI, November 7, 1986. Cooper was the captain of the ARTHUR M. ANDERSON at the time of the FITZGERALD's loss.

Statements by the President of the Lake Carriers' Association, dated Sept 16, 1977 and June 1, 1978 in regard to the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.