A memorial service honoring the 29 men who sank with the Edmund Fitzgerald in a Lake Superior gale 36 years ago takes place Thursday at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in the eastern Upper Peninsula.
The 16th annual commemoration starts at 7 p.m. The 729-foot ore carrier sank in 1975, about 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point.
The museum is at Whitefish Point in Chippewa County’s Whitefish Township, about 35 miles northwest of Sault Ste. Marie.
The Evening News of Sault Ste. Marie says this year’s ceremony features the ringing of a bell, plus remarks by Dennis Hale. He’s the sole survivor of the 1966 sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell.
Music is by Mike Fornes and his Gordon Lightfoot tribute band, “Whispers of the North.”

For more information visit the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum.

VIDEO: This is the last interview of Capt. Bernie Cooper of the Arthur M. Anderson conducted by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society before he passed in 1993. The Anderson was 10 miles behind the Fitzgerald in the teeth of Lake Superior during that fateful night of November 10th, 1975 when all 29 men went down. Hear a first hand account of what it was like that night and Capt. Coopers theories on what may have happened to the Fitz.