TOLEDO, Ohio — The National Museum of the Great Lakes (NMGL) announced its 2025 fall lecture series lineup, featuring historical talks and presentations on Great Lakes history. In a press release, ...

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

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

Today marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most tragic and well-known shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, the sinking of the ...

Today marks a notable anniversary here in the Midwest. The SS Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the largest, most famous freighters ...

Retelling shipwreck stories help keep the memories of their victims alive. How the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, SS Carl D. Bradley ...

One huge November storm sank 18 ships and drowned more than 250 sailors on the lakes 62 years before the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in Lake Superior.

CHIPPEWA COUNTY — After 132 years, the final resting place of the 300′ steel steamer Western Reserve has been discovered roughly 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point in Lake Superior. According to a ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Modern day freighters are massive - the Edmund Fitzgerald stood more than 700 feet long and weighed over 13,000 tons. Today’s ships are designed off the back of generations of shipping ...