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 ...

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

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, ...

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

When Melissa departs the Caribbean later next week, it may contribute to stormy conditions along much of the United States ...

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 ...

It has been a half-century since the ship sank on Lake Superior, and a pop single memorialized its fate. Now museums are commemorating those events. By John Hanc Reporting from Toledo, Ohio This ...

DULUTH — The Duluth Public Library alone holds over two dozen books about the Edmund Fitzgerald. Yet, John U. Bacon’s new book, “The Gales of November,” is subtitled “The Untold Story of the Edmund ...