On Nov. 10, 1975, the 729-foot Great Lakes freighter, the Edmund Fitzgerald, carrying a full load of iron ore, sank in a fierce storm off Whitefish Point in Lake Superior. The next morning, upon confirmation from the Coast Guard that the entire crew of the giant carrier had perished, Rev. Ingalls rang the church bell 29 times, once for each victim. His action was memorialized in Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
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