Fifty years ago on Nov. 10, 1975, the 729-foot lake freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a severe gale in Lake Superior. All 29 crewmembers were lost. It was the largest ship ever to sink in the ...

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Edmund Fitzgerald was a businessman in the Wisconsin area: the president of Northwestern Mutual in Milwaukee, which owned the ...

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

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

You may have seen two ships — the motor vessel Calumet and the tug/barge Olive L. Moore/Menominee — weatherbound in ...

When the Edmund Fitzgerald sank, it was up to the crew of the Arthur M. Anderson to go search for survivors. Then, it was up ...

It's native to the Black and Caspian Seas in Europe. Experts say the round goby got a ride to the Great Lakes in water ...

The story of the Edmund Fitzgerald still resonates 50 years after it sank off the coast of the Upper Peninsula's Whitefish ...

The uniqueness of the Fitzgerald and the unknowns surrounding its demise may be part of why it’s so well-preserved in the memory of those who were here to experience it. Lynn has shadowy recollections ...

David “Cowboy” Weiss was a wild-hearted, cocky and freshly minted cadet from Traverse City’s new Great Lakes Maritime Academy ...