On Nov. 9, 1975, the Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald left port from Superior, Wisconsin, bound for Detroit's Zug Island with a load of 26,000 tons of iron ore pellets. The day was relatively ...

DETROIT (AP) — A life ring and a piece of a lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald were sold at auction Friday for $150,000, a month after the 50th anniversary of the famous ship’s sinking in Lake ...

News 8 is producing a series of stories that will be published in the days leading up to Nov. 10, the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It will culminate with a WOOD TV+ special ...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, killing all 29 crew members. The exact cause of the shipwreck remains unknown, and the wreck site is now a protected grave.

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 ...

TRAVERSE CITY — This November marks 50 years since the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and 9&10 News is bringing you special coverage to remember the ship and her crew. Join us at 4 p.m. on Nov. 7 ...

DETROIT, Mich,. (WPBN/WTU) - - As the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking approaches, Detroit's Mariner's Church remains a poignant symbol of the maritime community's enduring legacy.

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — Museum Ship Valley Camp curator Paul Sabourin is a walking encyclopedia of maritime knowledge, but the question he gets most often is the one that's hardest to answer. "I ...