50 years ago this week, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, claiming the lives of all 29 of its crew members.

The fabled ship, immortalized by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, that once championed The Great Lakes met a mysterious end that remains contented five decades after its ill-fated sinking.

The fateful journey began on Nov. 9, when the 729-foot freighter departed Burlington Northern Railroad Dock in Superior , Wisconsin , bound for Zug Island in Detroit , Michigan , hauling 26,000 tons of taconite pellets made of iron ore.

HOW WEATHER TURNED THE GREAT LAKES INTO A SHIPWRECK GRAVEYARD

On the rough seas of the largest of The Great Lakes, the Fitzgerald was accompanied by the Arthur M. Anderson, a fellow Great Lakes freighter that departed

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