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Search is on for radio used to make last contact with Edmund Fitzgerald

Sep 29, 2025 | Daily News

Local historians are looking for one of the last radios to be in contact with the Edmund Fitzgerald. The radio was among discarded items when the Auxiliary Coast Guard building in Grand Marais, Michigan, was emptied. Read the full story by The Detroit Free Press.


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