Mariners Church annual memorial broadens focus

The Mariners' Church annual memorial mass shifted its focus away from the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy and towards all Great Lakes shipping accidents.

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The Mariners’ Church, just a few hundred yards from the Detroit River and the passing freighters that still carry raw materials from the north to the steel mills of the Midwest, has been dedicated to sailors since 1848. When it became certain on the morning after the Fitzgerald went down that no one aboard had survived, the rector, the Rev. Richard Ingalls, quietly unlocked the bell tower and tolled the church bell 29 times, once for each man lost.

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