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Item Name:
Edmund Fitzgerald: The Legendary Great Lakes Shipw
Item #:
EAW0004
Price/ea:
$9.55 USD
Excerpt.
© Reprinted by permission.
All rights reserved
The ship's launch on Saturday, June 8, 1958, was a big event in Detroit. Over 15,000 people were in attendance, including Edmund Fitzgerald himself and several members of his family. As the crowd gathered, military planes, commercial airliners, and helicopters flew overhead, while on the Detroit River, a flotilla of boats - yachts, sailboats, fishing boats, tugs, scows, and freighters - waited to welcome the new ship. Among these vessels was the 32-year-old W. E. Fitzgerald, which saluted the new Fitzgerald by blasting her deep horn.
Edmund Fitzgerald's wife, Elizabeth, was given the honour of christening the ship. Looking regal in a dark blue dress, white gloves, and a white pillbox hat, she said, "I christen you Edmund Fitzgerald ... God bless you," then smashed the celebration champagne bottle across the ship's bow. To everyone's surprise, the bottle didn't break. Elizabeth tried a second time, and again the bottle stayed intact. Thankfully, the third attempt was successful.
The rest of the launch was even more awkward than the christening. Despite the Herculean efforts of the shipyard crews, loosening the stubborn keel blocks underneath the vessel took more time than anticipated. Finally, after a delay of 36 minutes, eight electronically controlled guillotines dropped their razor-sharp blades to cut the hawsers (large ropes or cables) that were holding the ship. The Edmund Fitzgerald then slid thunderously down the 60 feet of wood timbers (smeared with train oil) and into the Detroit River. She entered the water sideways, crashing violently into the dock as her top half rolled to port, back to starboard, and then back to port again before stabilizing |
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