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, ...

There have been six sanctioned expeditions of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The ship sank in Canadian waters in 1975 and rests 535-feet below the surface of Lake Superior. The last dive was approved in 1995 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elle Andra-Warner, of Thunder Bay, is the author of a popular book titled "Edmund Fitzgerald: The Legendary Great Lakes Shipwreck." As the tragedy's 50-year mark approaches, she offered her thoughts.

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 ...