The German 88mm flak gun was legendary for shredding tanks, but its most improbable target was on the open sea. During a ...

The German 88mm flak gun was legendary for shredding tanks, but its most improbable target was on the open sea. During a British commando raid on Tobruk, the destroyer HMS Sikh ventured too close to ...

Milwaukee Public Library's Central Library is home to a collection of artifacts and files from a plethora of ships, including ...

Thousands of vessels — 6,000 or more — lie at the bottom of the Great Lakes. Several hundred could lie beneath the waves in the part of Lake Michigan that falls under Illinois’ ...

Gordon Lightfoot and his band recorded the "little ditty" in a Toronto studio in December 1975, just weeks after the ...

Nolan Church joined the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald as a porter late in life — a new career at age 50 after he was laid off from mining-related work in Silver Bay.

A Palau-flagged freight ship has sunk off the coast of Turkey's Black Sea province of Bartin, killing two crew members, the coast guard said on Sunday, adding that search and rescue operations for ...

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

Less than a year after the American cargo carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in the Great Lakes in November 1975, the late ...

There were 569 crewmen of Mare Island submarines lost during World War II, including USS Wahoo and USS Tang. Thanks to Myrna ...

"We validate, commemorate and show appreciation for their effort, their valor and sacrifice — endured within the unimaginable ...