SAULT SAINT MARIE, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down to the big lake they call Gitche Gumee. 

That legend was born 47 years ago on Thursday. 

MORE NEWS: Tiny Travelers Return: Hummingbirds Arrive in Michigan for Spring

On the night of November 10, 1975, The Edmund Fitzgerald went down in Lake Superior. It killed all 29 men on board. 

The 728 foot lake freighter departed Superior, Wisconsin on the morning of November 9, loaded with 26,000 tons of iron ore, and headed for a port in Detroit. 

At 7:10 p.m. the latest radio message from the Fitzgerald to the Arthur M. Anderson was, “We are holding our own.”  By 7:15 p.m., the Fitzgerald was gone from radar. 

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point in the Upper Peninsula will be offering a virtual memorial service on Thursday night at 7 p.m.. They will ring the bell from the Fitzgerald 30 times.  The bell rings will honor the 29 men on the Fitzgerald and one for all lives lost on The Great Lakes.

The livestream link will will be posted here.

Listen to the Gordon Lightfoot song about the Edmund Fitzgerald here.