Dictionary entry overview: What does aviation mean? â¢ AVIATION (noun) The noun AVIATION has 4 senses: 1. the aggregation of a country's military aircraft 2. the operation of aircraft to provide transportation 3. the art of operating aircraft 4. travel via aircraft Familiarity information: AVIATION used as a noun is uncommon.
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there.
SSEFO is dedicated to informing others about the ship and crew; the 1975 tragedy took the lives of 29 men: sons, brothers, fathers, and husbands, a loss affecting dozens of families and a countless number of friends and comrades of the shipping industry. S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald is lost, but not forgotten.