WikiPop's Pick · November 11, 2025
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
Great Lakes freighter sunk in Lake Superior
On November 11, 2025, the most-viewed article on Wikipedia was Dharmendra, with 1,392,953 views. It and the next two articles were all WikiPop's picks in the past 30 days, and we don't repeat an article that soon. So WikiPop's pick is #4, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, with 234,029 views.
SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there. She was located in deep water on November 14, 1975, by a U.S. Navy aircraft detecting magnetic anomalies, and soon afterwards found to be in two large pieces.