Gordon Lightfoot "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

The sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, November 10, 1978

Seventeen years after its launch in 1958, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald freightersank during a storm on Lake Superior, taking with it a crew of 29 -- whose bodies have never been found. The event continues to draw controversy, research, and debate, and the Shipwreck Museum actually cites Gordon Lightfoot's ballad about the vessel as a major catalyst in public interest around the ship.