A man who found a life ring and a plank from a lifeboat days after the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald will be auctioning off the items in Detroit.
According to Detroit auction house DuMouchelles’s website, a live auction is set for Friday, Dec. 19, at 10 a.m. CST (11 a.m. EST) for the life ring that was discovered by Larry Orr in 1975.
Orr said that more than a week after the Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, killing all 29 men, he found the artifact and a piece of the lifeboat on shore in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula…