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, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Monday marks 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald was lost to Lake Superior, becoming the largest shipwreck on the Great Lakes and one of its most storied tragedies. News ...

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 ...

On the night of November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared in a brutal Lake Superior storm with all 29 crewmen aboard. The 730-foot freighter had departed Superior, Wisconsin, the day ...

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 ...

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 ...