Before it met its demise 50 years ago, the ore freighter commissioned by Northwestern Mutual was the rock star of Great Lakes ...

But long before that tragedy, talk of the Mighty Fitz had centered around a ship that was known as an engineering marvel. She ...

From hand-built canoes to massive freighters, violent storms have tested ships for centuries and led to tragedies that ...

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

On a stormy night in 1975, a giant cargo ship vanished beneath Lake Superior. All 29 crew members were lost, and the cause ...

The ship sank during a violent Lake Superior storm, killing all 29 men on board. The wreck was the biggest maritime investigation in Great Lakes history, but a half-century later, the cause remains a ...

Two journalists with their own personal stories of the Edmund Fitzgerald tell their tales on the disaster's 50th anniversary.

WHITEFISH POINT, MI - As the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in the Upper Peninsula prepares for its big gatherings to mark the 50th anniversary of the tragic sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, more ...