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After learning of the loss of the iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior and the deaths of all 29 crew members from Newsweek, Gord lifted passages from the article and put them to a dreamy dirge: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Night shift in a teeming academic hospital can feel like a relentlessly heaving freighter, and I’d been hustling from ward to ward bailing water; this task was just another on my scut list.
—Danielle Ofri, New Yorker, 7 June 2025
Season 1 ended with him on a freighter teaming with Stellan Skarsgård’s Luthen Rael, another Rebellion lynchpin.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025
Listed as a general cargo ship, the freighter is 502.6 feet long and 77.4 feet wide.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
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Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Night shift in a teeming academic hospital can feel like a relentlessly heaving freighter, and I’d been hustling from ward to ward bailing water; this task was just another on my scut list.
—Danielle Ofri, New Yorker, 7 June 2025
Season 1 ended with him on a freighter teaming with Stellan Skarsgård’s Luthen Rael, another Rebellion lynchpin.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025
Listed as a general cargo ship, the freighter is 502.6 feet long and 77.4 feet wide.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
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“Freighter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freighter. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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freighter
noun
freight·er
ˈfrāt-ər 
1
: a person who carries or ships freight
2
: a ship or airplane used chiefly to carry freight
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