who designed it?
Great Lakes Engineering Works (GLEW), of River Rouge, Michigan.
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, invested in the iron and minerals industries on a large-scale basis, including the construction of "Edmund Fitzgerald", which represented the first such investment by any American life insurance company. In 1957, they contracted Great Lakes Engineering Works (GLEW), of River Rouge, Michigan, to design and construct the ship "within a foot of the maximum length allowed for passage through the soon-to-be completed Saint Lawrence Seaway."
when did the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald happen November 10, 1975 what is it refers to? It was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there.
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald [SEP] Design and construction
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, invested in the iron and minerals industries on a large-scale basis, including the construction of "Edmund Fitzgerald", which represented the first such investment by any American life insurance company. In 1957, they contracted Great Lakes Engineering Works (GLEW), of River Rouge, Michigan, to design and construct the ship "within a foot of the maximum length allowed for passage through the soon-to-be completed Saint Lawrence Seaway." The ship's value at that time was $7 million (equivalent to $ in ). "Edmund Fitzgerald" was the first laker built to the maximum St. Lawrence Seaway size, which was long, wide, and with a draft.