Relics from Edmund Fitzgerald sell at auction for $150K

FILE - The Fitzgerald in a 1959 file photo, with a crew of 28 to 30 men, was carrying a load of 26,216 tons of taconite pellets. (AP Photo, file)

DETROIT, Mich. (KFGO/Learfield) – Relics from the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sold at auction in Detroit for $150,000.

The orange life ring with “SS Edmund Fitzgerald” in white stenciled lettering was found a week after the freighter sank in Lake Superior in November of 1975.

The other item auctioned off is a wooden plank from one of the ship’s lifeboats.

The relics were loaned to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Michigan in 1988.

A record 2,000 people attended a ceremony at Split Rock Lighthouse last month marking the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

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