The Edmund Fitzgerald -- 50 years ago -- Nov. 9, 1975 : loaded with 26,000 tons of iron ore

The doomed cargo ship

Edmund Fitzgerald

began its journey

2:15 p.m. leaving

Superior Wisconsin

intending to deliver

its cargo at Detroit's

Zug Island.

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