According to the description on Barnes & Noble’s website, Bacon’s narrative is built on “more than 100 interviews with the families, friends, and former crewmates of those lost.” The author “draws on ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy” (Michigan State University Press, $29.95), uncovers more of ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Edmund James Fitzgerald comes from a long line of Edmund Fitzgeralds. His father was named James Edmund Fitzgerald, and his grandfather was Edmund McCarron Fitzgerald.

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald vanished in November 1975 without a single distress call, and decades later, nobody can say for ...

DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan is giving up ownership of a rare relic from the famous Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck, just weeks after it strangely obtained it through a settlement in a lawsuit ...

Author John U. Bacon would bet otherwise. Bacon grew up in Michigan and thought he knew the story, too, until he started ...

It's been 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, claiming the lives of all 29 crew members aboard. The story of the ship and its crew members is one that ...

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was released in 1976, less than a year after the ship sank in Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot’s song peaked at number two on the Billboard chart that same year.

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 ...