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

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, ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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

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 ...

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.

MICHIGAN — The Edmund Fitzgerald might be the Great Lakes’ most famous shipwreck, sinking 50 years ago on November 10th, 1975, in Lake Superior. If you grew up in Michigan, you have at least heard the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Half a century ago, on an unseasonably warm fall day, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald set off from the western edge of Lake Superior with a ...

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 ...