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.

November 10 will mark 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald was lost on Lake Superior. It’s one of the region’s most popular shipwreck tales, in large part thanks to Gordon Lightfoot’s haunting ...

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

Retelling shipwreck stories help keep the memories of their victims alive. How the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, SS Carl D. Bradley ...

November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of all the estimated ...

Modern technology provides the ability to learn definitively what sank the Edmund Fitzgerald — if the restrictions over ...

DULUTH — The Western Reserve, a mammoth and nearly new steam freighter, was en route to Two Harbors in August 1892 when it split in half during a storm and quickly sank to the depths of Lake Superior, ...

With the weather forecasting capabilities of today, the captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald may not have even embarked from port.

Dublin's Abbey Theater debuts "The Witch of November," a play about the Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking, highlighting the captain ...

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 ...

A U.S. Coast Guard MH-60 helicopter conducted an airlift operation to rescue a patient from a freighter on Lake Superior due to a medical emergency. The helicopter, dispatched from Traverse City on ...