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 ...

Also known as the "witches" of November, they occur between mid-October and mid-December, when storm tracks collide over the ...

Ask any Michigan child to name two famous shipwrecks and, chances are, they’ll say the Titanic and the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point is home to the only item removed from the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald turned heads when she was launched in Detroit in 1958. The ship was longer and could carry more taconite than any other Great Lakes freighter, and it boasted plush quarters ...

In his new book, "The Gales of November," John U. Bacon explores the history and mysteries of the 1975 wreck of the Edmund ...

The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm. The mighty ship, ...

The legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald is well-known on the Great Lakes. On Nov. 10, 1975, the Great Lakes freighter was lost, along with her entire crew of 29 men, in a storm on Lake Superior, 17 miles ...

The SS Alpena, the oldest working freighter on Michigan's Great Lakes, is back on course for another shipping season. As of 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 28, the ship was en route from Cleveland, Ohio, and was on ...