WHITEFISH TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The location of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is no coincidence. "We do have 200 shipwrecks, approximately, right in this area of Whitefish Bay," said Bruce Lynn. "If we ...

The doomed ship went down just 17 miles from safety. Could this evidence explain what went wrong?

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A story, a cautionary tale, a legend: Thousands of ships have gone down in the Great Lakes, but none were as infamous as the Edmund Fitzgerald. Today, we’re breaking down what led to this tragedy, and ...

On the brilliant fall afternoon of November 9, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald glided out of Superior, Wisconsin, loaded with 26,000 tons of taconite pellets bound for Detroit. The vast expanse of Lake ...

Fifty years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared beneath the waves of Lake Superior - and a legend was born. The iron ore freighter, one of the largest and most well-known ships on the Great Lakes, ...

Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim team members Sara Morgan and Emelia Larsen, from Duluth, and Tammy Lenarz Carruth, of Montevideo, before a training swim in Pike Lake in Duluth on July 17. When it ...

Beware of the "gales of November" on the Great Lakes this month, as singer Gordon Lightfoot warned, because this month has been particularly deadly for sailors on the lakes for hundreds of years. Over ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The National Museum of the Great Lakes will be remembering the tragic loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald by holding a weekend of events during its 50 year anniversary Friday, Nov. 7- Monday, ...