The Great Lakes’ most famous shipwreck – and inspiration for Gordon Lightfoot’s chilling ballad – still resonates: a tale of ...

Fifty years after the Great Lakes freighter sank, scientists can explain the weather that still haunts Lake Superior.

A massive freighter carrying thousands of tons of iron ore disappeared in Lake Superior, setting shipping on a new course ...

Terrence Tysall set a record scuba diving to the Edmund Fitzgerald. Ric Mixter dove in a submersible, finding a missing body.

November 10 will mark 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald was lost on Lake Superior. It’s one of the region’s most popular ...

This Monday marks 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, but the legend of the lost freighter lives ...

But long before that tragedy, talk of the Mighty Fitz had centered around a ship that was known as an engineering marvel. She ...

Ask any Michigan child to name two famous shipwrecks and, chances are, they’ll say the Titanic and the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. “The Fitz” sank in Lake Superior during a ...

Fifty years ago on Nov. 10, 1975, the 729-foot lake freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a severe gale in Lake Superior. All 29 crewmembers were lost. It was the largest ship ever to sink in the ...

Freighters on the River Rouge in 1936. A view of the River Rouge from I-75 in 1936. The River Rouge in 1936 Freighters in the winter of 1937 on White Fish Bay on Lake Superior. Freighters on Lake ...

On a stormy night in 1975, a giant cargo ship vanished beneath Lake Superior. All 29 crew members were lost, and the cause ...