Half a century ago, on an unseasonably warm fall day, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald set off from the western edge of ...

NASHOTAH, Wis. — Without Gordon Lightfoot's song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 other ships that went down in the Great Lakes before it.

The Edmund Fitzgerald vanished without a mayday, leaving investigators with wreckage, competing theories, and no survivors. This is how the evidence fits together into one plausible chain of events, ...

MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — Spend enough time along the shores of Lake Superior and it won’t be long before there’s some reminder of what happened “when the gales of November came early.” This year marks ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald was transporting iron ore when it sank in November 1975, killing all 29 crew members. Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society In November 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald encountered ...

MICHIGAN, USA — Nearly fifty years after the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a deadly Lake Superior storm, a relay swim will symbolically finish the ship’s final journey in honor of the 29 men who never ...

According to the description on Barnes & Noble's website, Bacon's narrative is built on "more than 100 interviews with the families, friends, and former crewmates of those lost." The author "draws on ...

News 8 is producing a series of stories that will be published in the days leading up to Nov. 10, the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It will culminate with a WOOD TV+ special ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — Spend enough time ...

Spend enough time along the shores of Lake Superior and it won’t be long before there’s some reminder of what happened “when the gales of November came early.” This year marks the 50th anniversary of ...