DETROIT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The life ring from the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald and a wooden plank from one of the ship’s lifeboats has sold at an auction in Detroit for $150,000.
The orange life ring was found eight days after the Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 and killing all 29 on board.
The auction was held at DuMouchelles in Detroit and closed Friday after over a week of online bidding.
Seventy-seven-year-old Larry Orr found the life ring and plank on his 27th birthday and says he hopes the new owner returns it to public display for people to appreciate and learn about Great Lakes shipwrecks.
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