From the MPR archives: Local sailor reacts day after Edmund Fitzgerald sank
Update: 2025-11-10
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Monday marks 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald took its final voyage, before getting swallowed by Lake Superior in a November storm. All 29 crew on the ship died.
MPR News was reporting on the story at the time. The day after the ship sank, MPR News reporter Claudia Hampston spoke to Erling Hanson. He was a boat engineer with experience sailing on Lake Superior. Here is Hanson’s reaction to news of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975.
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