Built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Mich., the ship launched in 1958. It was the first lake freighter built to the maximum St. Lawrence Seaway size. The Fitzgerald carried ore ...
WHITEFISH POINT, MI - Forty-nine years ago today, the Edmund Fitzgerald was caught in the grip of a deadly storm on Lake ...
More than a century later, the devastation is still staggering: At least 250 sailors lost, a dozen ships sunk, and 30 vessels ...
Almost half a century ago the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, a Great Lakes bulk cargo vessel en route to Detroit from Superior, ...
A busy port and moody skies make the “November gales” a special time to watch massive “lakers” and oceanbound “salties.” ...
This married couple loves to explore shipwrecks, and on this day they're heading to a location that attracts divers from ...
The "Fitz" sank on Nov. 10, 1975, not far from Whitefish Point, during a fierce November storm on Lake Superior. The late ...