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Theories range from the Fitzgerald striking a shoal and suffering bottom damage to flooding through the freighter's hatch covers, which filled the ship with water and sank it, to rogue waves, to structural flaws in the ship that the 1975 storm made deadly.
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Doyle Rice, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
So long as bulk carrier freighters move goods through the Great Lakes — and through the severe storms that can pop up in November and other months — the risk of an Edmund Fitzgerald-type disaster is never zero.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 2 Nov. 2025
The currently operational freighters are Russia's Progress vehicle and Cygnus and Dragon, spacecraft built by the American companies Northrop Grumman and SpaceX, respectively.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 25 Oct. 2025
The four crew members on board the plane, a Boeing 747 freighter, were rescued and sent to the hospital.
—Peter Guo, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2025
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Doyle Rice, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
So long as bulk carrier freighters move goods through the Great Lakes — and through the severe storms that can pop up in November and other months — the risk of an Edmund Fitzgerald-type disaster is never zero.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 2 Nov. 2025
The currently operational freighters are Russia's Progress vehicle and Cygnus and Dragon, spacecraft built by the American companies Northrop Grumman and SpaceX, respectively.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 25 Oct. 2025
The four crew members on board the plane, a Boeing 747 freighter, were rescued and sent to the hospital.
—Peter Guo, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Freighter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freighter. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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freighter
noun
freight·er
ˈfrāt-ər 
1
: a person who carries or ships freight
2
: a ship or airplane used chiefly to carry freight
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