But long before that tragedy, talk of the Mighty Fitz had centered around a ship that was known as an engineering marvel. She ...

Edmund Fitzgerald was a businessman in the Wisconsin area: the president of Northwestern Mutual in Milwaukee, which owned the ...

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

The freighter was traveling from Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan's Upper Peninsula to the eastern Canadian province of Quebec. No details have been publicly disclosed regarding what the freighter was ...

Sans Gordon Lightfoot and his song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," the Mighty Fitz would likely have disappeared from ...

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

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of the thousands of ships ...

Fifty years after the Great Lakes freighter sank, scientists can explain the weather that still haunts Lake Superior.

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

When it launched from the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan, in 1958, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship in the Great Lakes. For roughly a year, the 729-foot vessel was ...

Monday is the 50th anniversary of one of the most tragic and well-known shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, the sinking of the ...

MADISON (AP) — Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first ...