"But nowadays, because there's been 60 to 70 years of steel, coal and gas powered ships … the idea of a wooden ship fragment washing ashore really ... this vessel that washed up on Erieu was ...
The Edmund Fitzgerald, a freighter that went down in a November 1975 storm that was immortalized in the Gordon Lightfoot song ...
“Most ships were still wooden. It was a technologically advanced ... a Western Reserve’s starboard running light that had washed ashore in Canada after the ship went down.