
Know Your Ships Extra 2025:
Great Lakes Feature Magazine
Know Your Ships Extra offers even more ship, sailor and industry stories, recent shipping news and many more of the stunning photos – current and historic – for which Know Your Ships has become known for the past 66 years. Please note that the Extra, which is a feature magazine, does not duplicate the vessel and fleet listings found in the regular Know Your Ships book.
Only $9.95 ($12.95 Canada and elsewhere)
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Here’s What’s On Deck ...
In EXTRA 2025, we remember the loss 50 years ago of the EDMUND FITZGERALD.
• Meet Patrick Devine, who thought he had found his dream job when he
signed on to the Fitz as a relief deckhand in June 1975
• Explore the Fitzgerald's influence in popular culture: Music, art, literature
and – yes – souvenirs
• Check out some thoughts about what might have been if the Fitz had not sunk
ALSO
• Discover Great Lakes top cook Sissy Payment and find out her recipe
for success
• Check out the Great Lakes Lore Museum, where sailors are in the spotlight
• Read about the 'Ship That Built Cleveland,' which turns 100 this year
• Learn how a group of California upstarts turned the Great Lakes
shipping industry upside down in the 1970s with their fancy ideas
• Catch up with the latest Great Lakes/Seaway News
• Enjoy even more images from our readers as we continue our series
of FAN-TASTIC PHOTOS
AND MORE!
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Send Us Your Best Ship Shots!
We'd love to see your best photos and consider them for publication! Share them with us by emailing to kysfanphotos@gmail.com

Summer 2025 EXTRA
Remembering The Big Fitz
$9.95