On November 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald — once hailed as the “Pride of the Great Lakes” — disappeared into a violent storm and into legend. The largest vessel ever to navigate the inland seas, she was lost on Lake Superior during a brutal November gale, vanishing without sending a distress call and claiming the lives of all 29 crew members. The tragedy became one of America’s most haunting maritime mysteries. Vanished in the Gales of November recounts the ship’s final voyage, the men who braved the storm, and the relentless force that brought them down. With evocative detail, Craig H. Gallegos traces the Fitzgerald’s legacy, the sorrow that rippled through the families left behind, and the unanswered questions that continue to shadow Lake Superior. Blending history and homage, this work confronts the raw power of nature, the vulnerability of human ambition, and the ways we preserve memory through story — a poignant chronicle of the storm that forever changed the Great Lakes.
