Cities of The Great Lakes
This is the western-most city on the Great Lakes.
What is Duluth, MN?
A large, inland body of water that can be comprised of either salt or fresh water.
What is a Lake?
The load of Iron Ore was this many tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty.
What is 26,000?
Name for a toilet on a ship.
What is the head?
He wrote the song 'The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald.'
Who is Gordon Lightfoot?
City that is home to the Mariner's Church
What is Detroit?
A large, persistent body of ice that forms on land and moves slowly downhill under its own weight. Like the ones that carved the basin of Lake Superior.
What are Glaciers?
Mentioned in the first and last verse of the song, this is the Ojibwe name for Lake Superior.
What is Gitche Gumme?
Name for a Kitchen on a ship.
What is a Galley?
The business man who commissioned the ship, was also a co-founder of the Milwaukee Brewers, and namesake of the ship.
Who is Edmund Bacon Fitzgerald?
Great Lakes Brewery is located here making the 'Edmund Fitzgerald Porter'.
What is Cleveland?
Named for a species of fish found in the Great Lakes, this Point in Michigan protects a bay with the same name.
What is Whitefish Point?
How many more miles did the searchers all say until the Edmund Fitzgerald would have made Whitefish Bay?
What is 15 miles?
Known as the backbone of the ship, this runs along the hull of a ship from bow to stern.
What is the keel?
He was the captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald the night it wrecked.
Who is Ernest M. McSorley?
Listed on the hull, this was the home port of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
What is Milwaukee, WI?
Man-made, water-tight chambers with gates that raise and lower boats to overcome changes in water level. Like those in Sault Ste. Marie, MI.
The Church bell chimed 'til it rang this many times, For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
What is 29?
Area towards the stern, or rear of the ship.
What is the Aft?
The last ship to be in radio contact with the Edmund Fitzgerald
What is the Arthur M. Anderson?
Home to Black Beach, this mining town takes it's name from a precious metal.
What is Silver Bay?
An area of shallow water, like those just north of Caribou Island where it is believed the Edmund Fitzgerald may have scraped bottom mere hours before the wreck.
What are Shoals?
These of November came early.
What are Gales?
The steering apparatus of a ship.
What is the Helm?
Son of a famous French oceanographer, he was the first to dive to the wreck in 1980.
Who is Jean-Michel Cousteau?