WHITEFISH POINT — The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society has shared more details on how it will commemorate 50 years since the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior this coming ...

DULUTH — As the world marks a half-century since the loss of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the Duluth News Tribune will release a five-episode podcast exploring the freighter's story from its launch to ...

Captain Ernest McSorley and his crew were fighting for their lives in a battle against the "Witch of November" when his final words went out over the radio. “We are holding our own." Less than 15 ...

DULUTH — As the world marks a half-century since the loss of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the Duluth News Tribune will release a five-episode podcast exploring the freighter's story from its launch to ...

As I write this column, it is the 50th anniversary to the day — Nov. 10, 1975 — of the sinking on Lake Superior of the majestic Great Lakes freighter, Edmund Fitzgerald, amid the storm of the century.

"The Gales of November" by John U. Bacon offers a detailed account of the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck. The book explores the history of Great Lakes shipping and the lives of the ship's crew members.

In a matter of weeks, Ann Arbor resident Blake Andrews and three other people will work as a team to swim a distance most swimmers would never consider ― 32.4 miles across the Saginaw Bay in Lake ...

McKenzie Lee Williams passed away on June 9th, 2024, in a motorcycle crash, leaving behind her unpublished manuscript. Her family carried on her legacy by illustrating and now publishing her ...

Beware of the "gales of November" on the Great Lakes this month, as singer Gordon Lightfoot warned, because this month has been particularly deadly for sailors on the lakes for hundreds of years. Over ...

MICHIGAN, USA — Nearly fifty years after the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a deadly Lake Superior storm, a relay swim will symbolically finish the ship’s final journey in honor of the 29 men who never ...