WHITEFISH POINT, MI - Forty-nine years ago today, the Edmund Fitzgerald was caught in the grip of a deadly storm on Lake Superior. Investigators would later say the Mighty Fitz’s course had put ...

LAKE SUPERIOR, MI - It was 49 years ago today that the Edmund Fitzgerald was being loaded with 26,000 tons of iron ore, prepped for what would become its tragic final voyage. Once the largest ship ...

MICHIGAN, USA — It's been nearly 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. 49 years ago on Sunday ...

Almost half a century ago the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, a Great Lakes bulk cargo vessel en route to Detroit from Superior, Wisconsin, sank to the bottom of Lake Superior during a fierce storm that ...

MICHIGAN (WPBN/WGTU) -- Sunday, November 10, marks the 49th year since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior. The largest freighter on the Great Lakes went down about 17 miles ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. After four decades, Minnesota writer Hal Barnes has brought a radio play capturing the SS Edmund Fitzgerald’s fateful final voyage to life — with ...

DULUTH — The guitar Gordon Lightfoot used to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," according to his longtime bassist, is being sold at auction along with several other items related to the ...

Open water swimmers will be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald by participating in a 17-stage, 411-mile relay swim next year. Teams of four relay swimmers ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Sunday marks 49 years since one of the most famous and deadly Great Lakes shipwrecks: the sinking of the ore-carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald. In 1958, it cost $8 ...