Marine accidents

The collection contains transcripts, exhibits, and supplementary items from the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation convened on November 18, 1975, eight days after the EDMUND FITZGERALD sank in Lake Superior with her entire crew of twenty-nine men. The purpose of the inquiry was to determine the causes of the tragedy and to examine safety procedures. Indexes are available for exhibits and testimony in addition to an index for each of the seven volumes of the transcript.

Account of the conditions surrounding the sinking of the EDMUND FITZGERALD in Lake Superior, November 10, 1975. Delivered at a meeting of Wisconsin Marine Historical Society, Milwaukee, WI, November 7, 1986. Cooper was the captain of the ARTHUR M. ANDERSON at the time of the FITZGERALD's loss.