PARADISE, Mich. — Relics from the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald raised $150,000 in an auction coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the loss of the ship and 29 mariners. The auction was at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum on the Michigan Upper Peninsula. The highest bid was for an orange life saver doughnut with “SS Edmund Fitzgerald” stenciled in white. A wooden plank from one of the ship’s lifeboats also drew high bids, said the auction report. The ship is 550 feet deep in Canadian waters and legally off limits to divers. Most of the auctioned items were found washed up on shore.
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Video: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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