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

A nail-biting drama played out just off the tip of Michigan’s northernmost peninsula. It's almost too amazing to believe.

The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald was considered the largest and fastest Great Lakes ship. It set multiple records for the largest ...

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship ...

It was far from the deadliest shipwreck in the history of the Great Lakes. But none are more enduring. Nov. 10 marks the 50th ...

From hand-built canoes to massive freighters, violent storms have tested ships for centuries and led to tragedies that ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior Nov. 10, 1975, and killed all 29 men aboard. It's a modern maritime tragedy that ...

Fifty years on, John U. Bacon has written a new account of the disaster. In “ The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, ” he humanizes the tragedy, telling stories of each man ...

Before it met its demise 50 years ago, the ore freighter commissioned by Northwestern Mutual was the rock star of Great Lakes ...

One huge November storm sank 18 ships and drowned more than 250 sailors on the lakes 62 years before the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in Lake Superior.

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point is home to the only item removed from the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, killing 29 men who were aboard ...