The 729-foot-long freighter <a about="#mwt42" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"SS","href":"./Template:SS"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"Edmund Fitzgerald"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald" id="mwAQY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="SS Edmund Fitzgerald" typeof="mw:Transclusion">SS<span typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><i>Edmund Fitzgerald</i></a> sinks during a storm on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Superior" id="mwAQc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lake Superior">Lake Superior</a>, killing all 29 crew on board.