Tsawwassen marine artist John Horton's work has been used for another coin in the Royal Canadian Mint's Lost Ships in Canadian Waters series.
This recently released coin, which Horton said wraps up the series, depicts the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, an American freighter that sank during a terrible storm on Nov. 10, 1975 in Lake Superior. All 29 crew members were lost.
The coin shows the ship just prior to her sinking and a map of the nearby Canadian coastline, Horton said.
The words "S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald" and the outline of the ship's anchor are engraved along the edge of the one-ounce silver coin, the mint's website notes.
Horton's artwork was also used for previous coins in the series, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Empress of Ireland as well as the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, which were lost in the Arctic Ocean in the 19th century.
