It's been 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank among huge waves on Lake Superior, and its legend is just as gripping as ever.

Fifty years after the freighter disappeared into the depths of Lake Superior, the mystery of its demise—and the mournful ...

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

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 ...

Fifty years ago, one of the largest freighters ever to set sail in the Great Lakes region went down in a violent storm.

With the weather forecasting capabilities of today, the captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald may not have even embarked from port ...

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

Pam Johnson said her father was filling in for the Fitzgerald's regular cook on what was scheduled to be the final voyage of ...

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