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

Here in the Mariners’ Church, planted in the shadow of the Renaissance Center at the corner of Woodbridge Street and Woodward Avenue, the gales of November seem to swirl in the air.

The Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot and the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald are inextricably linked in a way few ...

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 ...

The giant Great Lakes ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald lies in the deep of Canada’s Lake Superior waters, a submerged tomb for ...

Twenty-nine sailors drowned in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975, and the ship was immortalized in a surprise hit ...

Sailors through the years recalled the ship and its crew and where they were working during the gale of Nov. 10, 1975.

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

Iron ore shipments on the Great Lakes remained strong in June, according to the Lake Carriers' Association. Loadings totaled 6.4 million net tons, an increase of 2.6 percent compared to both June 2007 ...

Shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes were below one million tons in March, a decrease of 39.1% compared to 2024, reports the Lake Carriers’ Association. Loadings were also below the month’s ...