Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance CompanyĬolumbia Transportation Division, Oglebay Norton Company of Cleveland, Ohioįitz, Mighty Fitz, Big Fitz, Pride of the American Side, Toledo Express, Titanic of the Great Lakes We combine shipping on multiple purchases so you only pay o.Edmund Fitzgerald, president of Northwestern Mutual To date neither has ever failed our eBay shipping delivery system.
All our 8” x 11” prints are shipped flat with a rigid cardboard stabilizer for durable impact and bend protection while our posters are shipped rolled in a rigid cylindrical tube that’s placed inside a 2nd shipping tube for double impact protection. Our printing process results in an exceptionally vivid, colorful and detailed view suitable for museum or gallery display. The detail and definition of the shipped product is usually excellent and much sharper than the low resolution image used here except in the rare exception that it be the clearest known view worldwide in which case it would be sold on the merits of its rarity alone and clearly stated as such. ************* ABOUT OUR PRINTS: All our views are printed to order by one of the most advanced Photo Art Printers in the industry that uses ultra chrome archival ink rated to maintain its original color characteristics for 125 years and beyond. Please contact us via eBay e-mail to set up any of our prints in any of the above size formats for you in BUY IT NOW. Please visit our store and look in the Shipwrecks Category to see a unique assortment of World Class Shipwreck Posters and Prints. It's made by one of the most advanced Photo Art Printers in the industry which produces a Premium Quality Poster Print. The white border is designed to fit under framing material. It measures approximately 18" x 24", (exact dimensions may vary) and comes with a 1/4 inch white border. From the AIS Photo Art Gallery, the poster is a New High Resolution Print on Premium Heavy High Gloss Photo Paper with a 50 year non-fade warranty. Three decades later, the saga remains so intriguing that the shipwreck has become known as "the Titanic of the Great Lakes", and is just one - although the most famous - of some 6,000 known Great Lakes shipwrecks that together have claimed 30,000 lives. Known as the "Queen of the Great Lakes" - and thought to be indestructible, the story of the EDMUND FITZGERALD inspired Canadian songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," a haunting ballad that launched a legend. All 29 officers and crew, including a Great Lakes Maritime Academy Cadet, went down with the ship, which lies broken in two sections in 530 feet of water. The FITZGERALD disappeared from sight in a furious snow squall and then from radar. Her sinking was so quick that no radio message was given though she had been in frequent visual and radio contact with the steamer ARTHUR M. Several times tons of water washed over her deck and challenged her buoyancy.
During the height of the storm in 70 knot winds, 25 foot waves combed her deck decreasing her normal 12 feet of freeboard. The FITZGERALD was running down bound loaded with 26,116 tons of taconite ore pellets from Superior, WI for Detroit, MI. The EDMUND FITZGERALD foundered on Lake Superior during a severe storm Novemat approximately 7:10 pm about 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point.
Built in 1958 at River Rouge, Michigan by the Great Lakes Engineering Works, the steel bulk freighter EDMUND FITZGERALD owned and operated by the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Co., Milwaukee, WI., was the largest carrier on the Great Lakes when launched. This lifeboat and some minor debris was all that was found. Anderson were the two ships involved in the initial search. The SS William Clay Ford and the SS Arthur M. Lifeboat Of The EDMUND FITZGERALD-An Intermediate Size Poster Print- On the night of November 10, 1975, the Great Lakes freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald was reported lost.
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