Built in 1957 at River rouge Michigan and launched in 1958 for the Olgebay Norton marine company which she was 729 feet long and her sister ship the Arthur B Homer was 828 feet long which was built in 1959 for Bethlaham steel out of Delaware. Meanwhile Olgebay norton was out of Cleveland Ohio. On November 10th 1975 the Fitz would sink in a gale
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