![]() She was a two-masted schooner, built by a man named Edmond Fitzgerald-EdmOnd, with an “O.” He came from an Irish family of six brothers, all Great Lakes people. It all started in 1870 when the first Edmond Fitzgerald was built in Port Huron, Michigan-maybe 60, 70 miles north of Detroit. You don’t build another Titanic, if you know what I mean. They shouldn’t have called the second one the Edmund Fitzgerald. Not a single member of the crew on either boat survived.Īny sailor will tell you, you never name a boat after one that was lost. ![]() One was lost at Long Point, the other near Whitefish Point. But none of that mattered to the waters of the Great Lakes. One was made of wood, the other of steel. The first Fitzgerald survived thirteen years on the Great Lakes, the second one, seventeen years. If they had known about the first one, things might have been different. You probably never knew there were TWO Fitzgeralds, did you? No one did. ![]() ) Map: Environment and Climate Change Canadaīy Bette Lou Higgins and Shelley Pearsall National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( Feature photo: The tip of Ontario’s Long Point, the Long Point Escarpment and the Dunkirk Escarpment. ![]()
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