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MICHIGAN, USA — It's been half a century since the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, taking the lives of all 29 members of her crew. 50 years ago on Monday, one of the ...

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 ...

PARADISE, MICHIGAN — Whitefish Point, also known as the Shipwreck Coast around the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and as the Graveyard of the Great Lakes to the sailors who must sneak past it to enter ...

“The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy.” 50 years ago today marks the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which is infamous for its mystery and notoriety ...