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- Lost in a storm on Lake Superior, the Fitzgerald is one of the largest ships to have sunk in the Great Lakes. The exact cause of the disaster has never been made clear, and has been the subject of much discussion. 46°59.91′N 85°06.61′W﻿ / ﻿46.99850°N 85.11017°W﻿ / 46.99850; -85.11017﻿ (SS Edmund Fitzgerald). SS Emperor.
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Sunken warships are the ultimate treasure â unless Canada can protect 'ocean graves' So as sport diving becomes more advanced and less costly, nine wartime ships in Canadian waters — most sunk by German U-boats, others by accident — are increasingly vulnerable to grave robbers.
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Rivers river severn river thames the rhine is one of the longest and most important river in europe it runs for over 1232 km 766 mi from its source in the in the swiss alps in switzerland issuing from the rheinwaldhorn glacier 3 353m above sea level
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Notable U.S. Navy Ships Lost Since World War II USS Magpie (AMS-25) blew up after striking a mine off the coast of Korea on Sept. 29 1950, claiming the lives of 21 members of the crew. Ships hitting mines during the Korean Conflict would also cost the U.S. Navy the USS Pirate (AM-275), USS Pledge (AM-277), USS Sarsi (ATF-111) and USS Partridge (AMS-31). Mines continue to be the biggest threat to the world’s navies and account for most ship losses other than accidents. USS Partridge, c. 1947.
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Submarine SS Great Eastern was by far the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers around the world without refuelling.
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Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum The bell from the SS Edmund Fitzgerald on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. Museum: the GLSHS opened its first museum exhibits to the public in 1985. In 1986, the society secured funds and constructed the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The museum is the second largest building at Whitefish Point.
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Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum The bell from the SS Edmund Fitzgerald on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. Museum: the GLSHS opened its first museum exhibits to the public in 1985. In 1986, the society secured funds and constructed the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located at the Whitefish Point Light Station 11 miles (18 km) north of Paradise in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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- The Achille Lauro cruise ship catches fire and sinks to the bottom of the sea near Somalia on this day in 1994. The large luxury liner had a checkered history that included deaths and terrorism prior to its sinking.
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- Club Fellow Jim Kennard, along with fellow explorers Roger Pawlowski and Roland “Chip” Stevens, have announced the discovery of a rare 18th century sloop discovered in Lake Ontario. Jim’s team discovered the shipwreck this summer in water off Oswego, New York.
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List of storms on the Great Lakes Many books, studies, and expeditions have examined the cause of the sinking. Fitzgerald might have fallen victim to the high waves of the storm, suffered structural failure, been swamped with water entering through her cargo hatches or deck, experienced topside damage, or shoaled in a shallow part of Lake Superior.
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- November 10, 1975 the bulk freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior with all hands. This page is dedicated to the memory of the 29 men lost that night and the families they left behind. The Fitzgerald cleared Superior, Wisconsin, on her last trip on November 9, 1975, with a cargo of 26,116 tons of taconite pellets consigned to Detroit.
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What happens if you eat boogers? Boogers are made of the mucus that lines the nostrils and, along with the tiny hairs known as cilia, protect the lungs from foreign objects such as germs, dust, dirt and pollen. Most of the time, the cilia trap these minute invaders, encapsulate them with mucus and move them out of the nose. Sometimes, however, this mucus becomes gummy and gelatinous -- or hard and crusty -- and forms what is known colloquially as a booger [source: Kids Health].
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USA: Mysterious Nazi submarine from WWII discovered in Great Lakes It was reported missing in 1943 and was believed to have been sunk near the Canadian coast. Professor Mark Carpenter, who leads the team of archaeologists, believes that the U-boat could have traveled up the St-Lawrence River, all the way to the Great Lakes, where it intended to disturb the American economy.
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- Definition of elasticity. Elasticity has been described as the degree of responsiveness of the quantity demanded relative to the factors that influence the quantity demanded. It is a ratio of relative change in quantity demanded and the relatives’ changes in factors that affects demand.The different types of elasticity of demand get their names from the factors that influence demand.his type of elasticity is used as a measure of relative changes in quantity demand due to relative changes in commodity prices when all the other factors are held constant. The other types of elasticity of demand are income elasticity of demand and cross price elasticity of demand.
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List of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes List of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes, a collection of five freshwater lakes located in North America, have been sailed upon since at least the 17th century, and thousands of ships have been sunk while traversing them.
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Lake Superior On Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes, the highest reported waves have approached 30 feet during violent fall storms like the one that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald in November 1975.
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Vicksburg, MS Remains of the SPRAGUE. On May 15, 1974 the steam towboat SPRAGUE (#T2327) better known as BIG MOMMA caught fire and burned down to the main deck at Vicksburg. She was last used as a tourist attraction in Vicksburg.
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List of the largest ships hit by U-boats in World War I List of the largest ships hit by U-boats in World War I. During the First World War, U-boats of the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) and the Austro-Hungarian Navy (German: Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine or K.u.K. Kriegsmarine) sank over 6,000 Allied and neutral ships totaling over 14,200,000 tons.
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St. Lawrence River 1 0 Jan 10, 2011 in St. Lawrence River. The Conestoga was built in Cleveland, Ohio in 1878. The 253 foot freighter had an estimated 30,000 bushels of wheat on board when she caught fire and sank just outside Lock 28 on the Galop Canal.
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403 Forbidden But the wreck everyone remembers is the Edmund Fitzerald. Forty years ago this week, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank to the bottom of Lake Superior, carrying 29 men to their deaths on Nov. 10, 1975. It's recalled, in part, because it's the most recent disaster on the Great Lakes.
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- Khalil Amir Sharieff, known by the stage name Khalil, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and rapper from Sacramento, California.
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there.
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- PORT HURON. Port Huron is known as the Maritime Capital of the Great Lakes with unique sites to be explored…immerse yourself in maritime lore by visiting the only existing lightship on the Great Lakes, the Huron Lightship.
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403 Forbidden Since the tall ships began racing in the Great Lakes in 2001, Bay City has hosted its Tall Ship Celebration five times, taking home Port of the Year honors in 2001 and 2006. Chicago won the award in 2003 and 2010.
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403 Forbidden on November 10, 2014 at 11:53 AM, updated November 11, 2014 at 1:17 PM. MARQUETTE, MI — The gales of November came early 39 years ago, when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath Lake Superior's churning waters on Nov. 10, 1975, taking the lives of 29 people.
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald Fitzgerald is among the largest and best-known vessels lost on the Great Lakes but she is not alone on the Lake Superior seabed in that area. In the years between 1816, when Invincible was lost, and 1975, when Fitzgerald sank, the Whitefish Point area had claimed at least 240 ships.