Ernest M. McSorley
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Ernest M. McSorley
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Ernest Michael McSorley was the last captain of the ill-fated laker-type freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald. He died along with the other 28 members of his crew when the ship sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. A Canadian by birth, McSorley wanted to be a captain. At age 11 in 1924, he moved to the United States with his father and stepmother and spent his teenage years in the St. Lawrence River town of Ogdensburg, New York. A veteran mariner, McSorley had over 40 years of experience on the
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American merchant mariner
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_M._McSorley
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2022-12-07T23:25:40Z
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