When it launched from the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan, in 1958, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship in the Great Lakes. For roughly a year, the 729-foot vessel was ...

Sailors through the years recalled the ship and its crew and where they were working during the gale of Nov. 10, 1975.

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship ...

A nail-biting drama played out just off the tip of Michigan’s northernmost peninsula. It's almost too amazing to believe.

A massive cargo ship carrying an estimated 3,000 vehicles capsized in international waters this week, causing it to sink, according to the US Coast Guard. The Morning Midas, operated by the ...

The massive air strike that destroyed the largest ship in the world is a prime example of how modern warfare technology and sheer naval power are evolving together. Precision air strikes using ...

Thousands of vessels — 6,000 or more — lie at the bottom of the Great Lakes. Several hundred could lie beneath the waves in the part of Lake Michigan that falls under Illinois’ ...