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The largest and longest vessel ever built on the Great Lakes, the 729-foot ore carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald, slides into the launching basin, on June 7, 1958, in Detroit, Michigan.

Two more months of interior work remain, before the $8,000,000 ship is put into service. Her capacity will be 26,000 tons and her speed up to 16 miles per hour.

Elizabeth Fitzgerald, wife of the chairman of the board of Northwest Mutual Life Insurance Co., holds a bottle of champagne with which she launched the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald in Detroit, June 7, 1958.

With her is her husband, for whom the vessel was named. The Edmund Fitzgerald was built at a cost of $8 million and is the largest and longest ship ever constructed in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald maiden trip on the Detroit River.

Watchman Ransom E.

Cundy, one of the crew member who died in