"We are holding our own."
— Last words
January 1, 1970
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Who: Ernest M. McSorley, last captain of the ill-fated Laker-type freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald. — Note: McSorley was captain of the 729-foot Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald, which was in a storm on Lake Superior. Soon after he said these words, the ship sank and all twenty-nine men aboard were killed.
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Who: Ernest M. McSorley, last captain of the ill-fated Laker-type freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald. — Note: McSorley was captain of the 729-foot Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald, which was in a storm on Lake Superior. Soon after he said these words, the ship sank and all twenty-nine men aboard were killed.