With apologies to Allahpundit for the “Friday Stupid” meme:
The legend lives oÂÂn from the Chippewa oÂÂn down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee. Saturday is the 32nd anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald — 729 feet-long, 75 feet in breadth, 39 feet in depth, weighing 13,632 gross tons — an ore bulk carrier with a capacity of 25,000 tons. When it was launched oÂÂn June 7 1958, at the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan, Fitzgerald was the largest ship oÂÂn the Great Lakes. Here’s misty, water-colored video of the launch.ÂÂ
The “Queen of the Great Lakes” sank in the eastern end of Lake Superior during a fierce storm — including snow squalls — that pounded the ship with 30-foot waves. The crew of 29 men perished; without witnesses, a definitive reason has never been determined. A Coast Guard report suggested that faulty hatches failed to keep water out of the ship’s cargo holds, though others believe the ship struck an uncharted shoal and took oÂÂn water. A documentary created and aired by the Discovery Channel concluded the loss was due to freak waves that overwhelmed the faulty hatches.
After the wreck, the Rev. Richard Ingalls went to Mariners’ Church in Detroit and rang its bell 29 times, oÂÂnce for each life lost. The church continues to hold an annual memorial, which includes reading the names of the crewmen and ringing the church bell. Here’s video of Rev. Ingalls recounting that night.
At the request of family members surviving her crew, Fitzgerald’s 200 lb. bronze bell was recovered by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society in 1995, as a joint project with the National Geographic Society, Canadian Navy, Sony Corporation, and Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. The bell is now oÂÂn display in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. Here’s a brief video from oÂÂne of the underwater explorations of the wreck. The Mpls. Star-Tribune still has a nifty interactive exhibit oÂÂn its website, too. Throw in the 3-D animation, and you’ll feel just like Bill Paxton.
The song by Gordon Lightfoot spent 21 straight weeks oÂÂn the pop charts, peaking at No. 2. And there’s a homemade video for it oÂÂn YouTube, which I highly recommend. Beats the tar of Celine Dion!
And haven’t we all wanted to do that?
Thanks, Karl, for that.
I made some beer money including “The Wreck” in my playlist with my three piece folky group in college.
Does any one know where the love of God goes
when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they’d have made Whitefish Bay
if they’d put fifteen more miles behind ‘er.
They might have split up or they might have capsized;
they may have broke deep and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the names
of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
One of my favorite lyrics of all time.
Dan: More times than I can count…
I remember hearing that the Edmund Fitzgerald went down. In my mind, it was stormy in my part of Michigan too, but now hearing that it was in November makes me doubt that part of the memory.
I also can’t hear the song without picturing my family crammed in the car,windows down, with no air conditioning the first summer it was popular. I think the song was on every time I got in the car for several years.
The wife and I get up to the North Shore as often as we can. (She comes from hill country, and really appreciates having some vertical terrain around her.) It’s impossible to drive up the lakeshore without seeing & thinking about the ore boats that still cross our inland sea.
Looking out on the lake from the Superior Hiking Trail, you begin to comprehend just how big it is. And even then, you’re only seeing the western end of it.
Sorry…why is this “stupid”?
The irony is lost on me.
The lifeboats are on the Valley Camp, a museum ship in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
Andrew,
“Friday stupid” is a phrase used by Allahpundit (and Bryan) at HotAir to denote a post that is not hard news-oriented. Indeed, it can apply to Halloween stupid, or even Wednesday stupid, though you would have to view the summary in the “Vault” to see that label now. It just tends to be Friday stupid from a TGIF sort of perspective. It’s like the “kicker” story on your local TV news about the water-skiing squirrel.
I should add that the “stupid” factor here stems largely from the Gordon Lightfoot angle. The real story is tragic.
I don’t know if this file has gone down, because I don’t have Real Player on this wreck, but if it’s still working, enjoy:
http://www.theatlantic.com/rm/shipwreck28.rm
If that doesn’t work, you can find the bit (unfortunately embedded in a boring explanation of it) here:
http://www.mischkemadness.com/audiofiles/the_wreck_of_the_edmund_fitzgerald.mp3
(Not linked right because there ain’t no preview no more, and I’m a-skeered.)
Cool. Magic.
That’s my favorite verse, too, BJ, but I like the first two lines:
Does any one know where the love of God goes
when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they’d have made Whitefish Bay
if they’d put fifteen more miles behind ‘er.
They might have split up or they might have capsized;
they may have broke deep and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the names
of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gives me chills every time I hear it. Great post, Karl.
I’ve seen the bell and the church in Detroit (it’s right next to the tunnel to Windsor.)
Allen G. Kalmon was my dad’s cousin. That bit about ‘too rough to feed ya’ chokes me up even now.
I have a secret weakness for Gordon Lightfoot’s music, I know it’s not very manly to like a folk singer from Canada but he really was a talented guy. The first album I ever owned was Summertime Dream. I remember hearing The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on the busdriver’s little radio going home from school and it haunted me. Later that year my oldest brother gave me the album and I still have it.
What I didn’t know was that it was such a recent wreck, I just assumed it was something from the 1890s or something.
Not such a secret anymore, Christopher.
NTTAWWT
I saw Gordon Lightfoot in concert at Tanglewood in Western Massachusetts, would have been summer of ’76. I’ve always liked him as a songwriter, especially his lyrics. As a live performer he was pretty pedestrian, with little range and plodding phrasing, backed by an OK band.
Anybody who writes music searches for that one, iconic connection that produces a work that’s not only popular, but also deeply affecting. Lightfoot wrote several good songs but “The Wreck” transcends those into that area of deep emotional response (well, at least for many.) Heck, my future son-in-law, professional modern rock musician (and a good one) was blown away the first time I played for him. He’s actually called me to remember some of the lyrics and, generally, he hates folk music.
Just off the top of my head, those little emotional crystals of great songwriting include (IMHO) “Say it Was Only a Dream” by Mary Chapin Carpenter, “My Old Man” by Roseanne Cash, “Something So Right” by Paul Simon, “Jungleland” Bruce Springsteen, “Desperado” Eagles.
Well, you get the idea. Songs that someone dug deep to write that dig deep inside of us. Some are more personal than universal but that’s part of the fun. I’m sure there are others that others will offer.
I don’t know. I thought that “Carefree Highway” was a better song.
Dan: I would say that “Carefree Highway” is better music but lacks the emotional punch of “The Wreck.” Lyrically it’s not nearly as clever but does have a more interesting arrangement, pretty much due to the nice lead guitar.
Keep in mind that I’m talking about an emotional connection, which is often going to be personal, copnnected as it may be to the circumstances of the individual. Led Zepplin’s “Fool in the Rain” is one of my all time favorite songs but it doesn’t make the list. “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” by Pink Floyd does beacuse of the backstory, which I was reading the first time I heard it. Plus Gilmour’s solo is one of the most emotional guitar lines I’ve ever heard.
IMHO
I liked several of the songs better on Summertime Dream, but he’s right, the music and lyrics of Edmund Fitzgerald are haunting and powerful, it’s a lightning strike in music to do that so well (of course some artists seem to be a lightning rod and get it right over and over, for a while at least).
The song off Wish You Were Here that hits me hardest is the title song, actually. From the start with the guy fiddling with the radio to the end it just grips me.
Yeah. Pink Floyd rocks.
“Edmund Fitzgerald” was the first song I remember learning in elementary school music class – fourth grade. Pretty heavy fare… And then, when my husband and I moved to Houston in 2001, a family moved into the neighborhood at almost exactly the same time. My husband went over to their house one evening and noticed the framed platinum records on the wall of the guy’s study; he asked if the guy collected such things. The guy, lovely conservative Canadian by the name of John Stockfish, chuckled and said, “No (eh), they’re mine.” He was Lightfoot’s bassist for quite some time, including on “Edmund Fitzgerald,” as well as playing with a bunch of other singer-songwriters of note in the ’70s. (Was scheduled to fly with Croce but didn’t, and lived, and now has a second family in Winston-Salem, dear friends of ours. My one and only name drop: a name nobody knows, but associated with a name everybody knows!)
In no particular order:
“Most Precarious”, Blues Traveler
“Too Far to Fall”, Captain Tractor
“Promenade”, The Gourds
I have a whole series of songs I’ve been writing about but I gotta say Walk Like a Man by Bruce Springsteen, Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrdand Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics hit me where I don’t have any armor.
The earth’s curvature makes is impossible to see even ten miles over a flat sea, less when it’s boiling like it was that day. Superior measures 160 by 350 miles. They probably never saw land.
I’ve sailed Lake Michigan in squalls in July and October and neither is recommended. There is no possible way to adequately describe what happens in November on Superior with three story seas. Given the meager freeboard on the Fitzgerald, even a 700 foot freighter can’t deal with it.
There’s a video someplace with an animation of the ship dropping into a trough bow-first and continuing right down into the bottom where the impact snapped it in two. If anyone knows where that vid is, please post a link. It is surreal.
I always think of this song when I see the big ships on Lake Michigan while driving home from work. I can’t even imagine the feeling of helplessness those 29 men felt that night.
Just thought I’d throw my two cents in:
Mandolin Wind-Rod Stewart
Life By The Drop-Stevie Ray Vaughan
In the book The Perfect Storm, blessedly free of George (C)looney, there’s a description of what happens to men trapped belowdecks on a sinking boat.
And reading that was a lot closer than I ever want to come to actually experiencing it, thanks for asking.
Life By the Drop is rough to listen to because he’d finally cleaned up his life then he died :(
The month before he died, Stevie Ray Vaughn was in town playing and I said “well heck I’ll catch him next time.” Guess not.
Songs that someone dug deep to write that dig deep inside of us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA6W6SnHKJw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAfwiOxaRbk
Don’t get me started.
The month before he died, Stevie Ray Vaughn was in town playing and I said “well heck I’ll catch him next time.†Guess not.
I saw him the night he died. It’s the only ticket stub I ever saved. I also saw him play a few months before he hit rock bottom and entered rehab and the difference between that night and his final gig was amazing.
Can someone show me how to do a link here? I have a collection of videos for this song. For some reason it’s always haunted me. No explanation is even possible,but there ya go…
BJ…I agree with you wholeheartedly about the lyrics to the “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. Absolutely haunting and beautiful. My 8 year old loves that song, too. It has special significance for us as we live right on the coast of Lake Erie and watching the big ships come in is one of her favorite things to do. The storms can come on in a minute and they can be unbelievable in their power. Mini-hurricaines to be sure. I, luckily, have never been on the water when such a storm comes in, but I have been on the beach and it can be scary to say the least.
JHoward: That video is from the History Channel.They did a special on the wreck that was rather well done. The Deep sea Detectives did one as well, but they ignored a few facts or blew over them to make time for a half hour show.
I’m a Yooper and remember the sinking happening.
The captain of the Anderson, who was with the Fitz, said McSorley had told him they were taking water some time after passing a shoal he knows was shown in the wrong place on the Fitz’s charts. So they were heavy with water. This hit is also what likely caused the Railing to snap off the ship (He had relayed that fact as well to the Anderson). He (Anderson’s Capt)also said that a few moments after his last transmission with the Fitz, the Anderson was rocked by two waves in quick succession. He feels that the second wave caught the first (common for the area they were in) and that drove the bow into the bottom.
The Wheelhouse on ore carriers is in the bow, unlike most ship designs.
In the course of such a storm, it is rather common for the wheelhouse to go under water. Indeed, the Fitz’s had done so several times. The first clue McSorley and the First Mate would have had that the last time was different, was the windows blowing in and the icy waters of Superior rushing in. Not a pleasant way to go. The blown Cargo hatches has always struck me as a poor excuse. The ones missing on the wreck are most likely caused by the destruction of splitting up on impact with the bottom. Much like crushing a full can of beer, the pressure has to go somewhere. Now it is slightly possible that the bottoming caused the boat to bend enough to dislodge a few covers, but unless they fell completely off, the wave action wasn’t going to add much to any water coming in from the breach in the hull from the shoal. To move it enough to leak the amount needed would cause it to move so far the boat would have sunk faster.
A few years back, my folks were visiting the Soo and went to the locks. The Arthur Anderson was passing through the locks from Superior to Huron, on yet another run. The Anderson is a far smaller ship than the Fitz was, and there are far larger boats that make the Fitz look small now, 1000 foot ships are huge things that fill a lock, I think in most places they pass on the Canadian side, as the locks are newer on that side of the boarder, so the ship can fit (1000 footers used to come into Escanaba all the time and I loved watching them make the turn from the Gladstone city beach).
Oh Yeah (as if I’ve not blathered on enough)
Several Coasties have told me they’ll take a Hurricane or North Atlantic storm any day over a storm on The Lakes. Especially Superior. The shallow water combined with the angles of the shore makes for a really nasty wave action that tends to twist you around. Falling over and standing up to find your “floor” is a bulkhead is common.
Shallow water is what makes Lake Erie so dangerous, too, JP. 200 feet at it’s deepest moorings. Around 60 to 80 feet around the coastal area, too. The big ships, during a storm, are in deep peril. But Superior really undulates on the lake bottom and the waves are unpredictable, especially, in a storm. Scary stuff to say the least.
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JP, your analysis makes sense — I didn’t feel the hatch notion was all there was to it either (but I’m no marine architect.) Take a look at that picture of the ship. Grasp either end in giant hands and twist and bend. A boat that long probably has inadequate stiffness against the bending forces three story waves present. If they couldn’t even serve mess, it must have been really rolling, completely awash.
It’d have even less resistance to rogue waves, which in this scenario (that pair you mention) could have gone the better part of twice the mean. This is speculation, of course, but it does tend to explain the extreme pitch, a 700′ boat actually running out of water, and the impact on the bottom. A more terrifying end to a huge boat is hard to imagine, especially with the forward wheelhouse and millions of pounds of talconite behind you.
The other problem with the Lakes is the chop and the lower density of fresh water. There are not predictable swells there, rather the erratic slam of seas made sharp and violent by all that fetch. A boat wallowing in that stuff, especially filling with water (he was listing by then) has no chance. What a nightmare, and at 3 or 4 in the morning, pitch black, in November somewhere around freezing, with winds peaking at 100mph. Superior is an ice cooler even in mid-summer. What an ordeal those hours must have been. One senses the futility and anguish in the memorials thereafter…
I’ve spent time on the south shore of Superior and looked north from Whitefish Point. The Lakes must be experienced to be even remotely comprehended. I heard “The Wreck” in a grocery store in New Hamspshire at least twenty years later and had to stop and compose myself. There’s nothing like that place. Surely sailing it commercially in heavy weather builds another breed entirely.
If we’re talking about songs that get you “right there”:
“Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd
“Taxi/Sequel” by Harry Chapin
“Fire and Rain” by James Taylor
I’ve ridden through a hurricane off the Virginia coast. We had blue water over the bridge wings (30′ seas) in a O. H. Perry-class FFG (Guided Missile Frigate). Scariest event I’ve ever experienced, and I’ve seen many things…
it’s cause in the back of my head I really really don’t want this to be a metaphor. Metaphors I like better are phoenixes and coma baby lives! ones.
Drum
When I said haunting, I mean like JD and evil sharptoothed midget clown(think Poltergeist) difference is? I’ve lived on or near the water my whole life, have known fishermen…I just try to deal by watching listening and hearing the worst. Still scares me though…again? NO explanation possible
Crap….that wasn’t meant for you Drum,was meant for OI at 8:27 PM
Happyfeet’s Law of Water instructs us that the net number of persons entering the water in a given year will never equal the net number of persons that emerge from the water.
yikes.
Corollary to happyfeet’s Law of Water is Drumwaster’s Law of Air:
In any given year, the number of takeoffs will always exceed the number of landings.
“The Lake it is said, never gives up her dead. . .”
The deep water in Superior is so cold the bodies are preserved. There is a steamer that is rather complete from the late 1800’s with the Captain still floating about in the wheelhouse. My uncle, who borrowed a dry suit, said he has a slight green cast to his skin, but looks like he could have gone down not long ago.
OI: Erie is hard on the smaller craft and shipping (as are all the lakes) but the big carriers are less in danger there(Fitz’s size and up). Ontario as well. Huron, and Michigan are big enough that the storms can get some momentum going. Especially when the winds are from the right direction. Superior is shaped such that as JHoward and you mentioned, with the odd floor shape along with the coastline causing reflection, the waves always come from different directions and no matter the wind direction. Erie, though, doesn’t get as many of the really big Lake Carriers, so more of it’s shipping is in trouble when it does get a nasty come visit. Most of the shipping I’ve seen that came from the Seaway, into the Lakes, was around 550 to 650 feet long. 740 is the longest thing that comes down the Seaway. Most are smaller, due to the depth, or lack thereof down stream of Quebec City (41 feet or so, max). That, combined with the Lake Effect Snow Erie is famous for, and you get nice icing to add to the waves of an early winter storm on Erie.
Also, The Fitz was carrying much more than originally designed. The tonnage was upped a few times over the years. So not only were they stressed by the seas, they had and “extra” thousand tons or so of ore.
Yes, after the thermocline, there’s not a lot of dissolved oxygen, either.
Man, I was at my daughter’s last night for dinner and missed all the trouble I started! :-)
BMoe: Great minds think alike. After I had posted my off the top of my head list the first thought that came into my mind was that I could have chosen from about half a dozen John Prine songs. Both of those reflect his possible designation as the angstiest(?) folk singer ever.
As I reflect on what I wrote it’s clear that I’m refering to some kind of tragedy in the subject matter. Then it becomes a fine line between real emotion and schmaltz. Mary Chapin Carpenter is probably my choice for the female half of the all touched-by-loss deep feeling folkster. I could add “I am a Town” and “Where Time Stands Still” in that category. For me, it is usually one little chunk of lyric that evokes the proper response. In the case of Carpenter’s “Only a Dream,” a song about her parent’s divorce, it’s the following:
But, oh, how our lives went bump in the night,
with the voices downstairs getting into a fight.
The next day a silence that cuts like a knife,
That feels like a blade at your throat.
Probably the all time champ of personalized emotion writing is Clapton’s “Tears from Heaven.” For James Taylor I’d pick “Close Your Eyes.”
I’ve always felt that great musicians out number great lyricists by a wide margin.
By the way, I can’t tell you how many times my wife has been around while I’m playing one of these tunes and remarked, “Don’t you know any happy songs?”
bla
this is the dumiest thing bushy or what ev
blah blah
the ship went down cause the driver was to heavy so it hit rock bottom
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bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla I AM SO BORED BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA I DOEN SAYING BLA U GET MY POINT ITS BORING bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla blabla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla blabla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla blabla bla bla bla bla 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November 10, 2010 Service at River Rouge Michigan
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
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