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 ...

On the night of November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared in a brutal Lake Superior storm with all 29 crewmen aboard. The 730-foot freighter had departed Superior, Wisconsin, the day ...

MICHIGAN — The Great Lakes are forces of nature, and one stands apart from the rest. Lake Superior is the biggest and deepest of the five Great Lakes. For centuries, humankind has fought to navigate ...

DULUTH — Often, when people see the Edmund Fitzgerald exhibit at the Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center, they simply have to hear the song. "One time I had the crap scared out of me, because I ...

WHITEFISH POINT, MI-- Behind thick museum glass at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum sits a 200-pound bronze bell, the centerpiece of an exhibit honoring one of Lake Superior’s most famous maritime ...

It has been a half-century since the ship sank on Lake Superior, and a pop single memorialized its fate. Now museums are commemorating those events. By John Hanc Reporting from Toledo, Ohio This ...

What caused the SS Edmund Fitzgerald freighter to sink amid a violent storm on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, killing its 29 crew members, remains a point of debate and mystery a half-century later.

MADISON (WKOW) -- Fifty years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew members. Here in Wisconsin, many have personal connections to the ship or may even know someone who ...

“The Legend lives on from the Chippewa on downof the big lake they call Gitche GumeeSuperior, they said, never gives up her deadwhen the gales of November come early.”— Gordon Lightfoot As I write ...

As I write this column, it is the 50th anniversary to the day — Nov. 10, 1975 — of the sinking on Lake Superior of the majestic Great Lakes freighter, Edmund Fitzgerald, amid the storm of the century.