29 Missing

The True and Tragic Story of the Disappearance of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Andrew Kantar

• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Year: 1998
• Print ISBN:
  9780870134463
• eBook ISBN:
  9781628952810
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

On November 10, 1975, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a giant freighter, sank with its entire crew of 29 aboard, in one of the most violent storms ever witnessed on Lake Superior. In 29 Missing, Kantar tells the "Fitz's" story from the christening in 1958 as the largest ship on the Great Lakes to the expedition in 1995 to recover the ship's bell in what proved to be a moving memorial to the lost crew. Using information from government investigative reports, the book provides a dramatic hour-by-hour account of what transpired during that terrible voyage, including dialogue from actual radio transmissions between the Fitzgerald and the Arthur Anderson, the freighter that followed behind the Fitz. 
     In his passionate retelling of the story, designed primarily for young adults, Kantar provides the facts leading up to the disappearance, detailing the subsequent expeditions to the wreck site as well as the leading theories about the sinking that have been debated by maritime experts.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Chapter 1: “Graveyard of the Great Lakes”
• Chapter 2: The Fitz
• Chapter 3: The Final Journey
• Chapter 4: The Storm Worsens
• Chapter 5: “I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It In My Life”
• Chapter 6: Vanished!
• Chapter 7: The Search Begins
• Chapter 8: Why Did the Fitzgerald Sink?
• Chapter 9: The Fitz Revisited: Exploring the Wreckage
• Epilogue
• Explorations Down to the Wreck Site of the Edmund Fitzgerald
• The Crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald
• Bibliography