Direct answer: 29 people were aboard the SS Edmund Fitzgerald when it sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. All 29 crew members died.
Context and details:
- The final voyage's crew numbered 29, including the captain, officers, engineers, deck crew, and support staff.
- The sinking on November 10, 1975 made it one of the most infamous Great Lakes shipwrecks, with no survivors.
- Contemporary reporting and memorials consistently enumerate the 29 crew members who perished.
If you’d like, I can pull more recent remembrances or biographies of individual crew members from reliable sources.
