On the afternoon of November 9, 1975, when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald set out on its 746-mile run from Superior, Wisconsin, to Detroit, Michigan, Lake Superior was mostly calm. Of magic and mythologyWhenever the November Witch sweeps across the Great Lakes in autumn, mariners know to beware. Video: Gordon Lightfoot – Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio), Gordon LightfootCanadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot released his song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” in 1976. A vessel two football fields long, like the Edmund Fitzgerald, can bridge ordinary wave troughs. But no Great Lakes freighter has been lost since the Edmund Fitzgerald.