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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2025
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Keep in mind she only had 15 feet of freeboard, so the waves would be 45 feet above deck
That's nowhere near enough freebird
Storm waves on Lake Superior are about 100ft apart, and the Edmund Fitzgerald was 725 feet long, so at any moment they were being pummeled by about 6 waves simultaneously. The waves twisted the stern about 90-180 degrees from the bow without detaching it. The waves on the Great Lakes are absolutely brutal