The Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim will begin on Saturday in Lake Superior and be done in stages. It's meant to memorialize ...

Image of the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck taken during a dive in 1995 to recover the ship's bell. Photo provided by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. RELATED: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: See ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald was a massive ship at the time, one of the largest on the Great Lakes. Built in 1971, the freighter was 729 feet long and cost $8.4 million dollars to build.

November marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and an Upper Peninsula-based company is honoring ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald left Superior, Wisconsin, at 2:15 p.m. on Nov. 9, 1975, under the command of Captain Ernest M. McSorley.She was headed to a steel mill on Zug Island, near Detroit, Michigan ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald, also known as the Pride of the American Side, and the Titanic of the Great Lakes, met her demise under unknown circumstances 49 years ago. In that quiet, icy grave lives on ...

The annual Great Lakes Memorial takes place Sunday at the Mariners' Church of Detroit. Rev. Jeffrey Hubbard describes the event's significance and its roots in a 1975 shipwreck.

In 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank without a distress call, after a strangely encouraging message from its captain. None of the crew survived to tell anyone what took place, but we will venture ...

Man who last visited the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald hopes to return. More for You. Bela Karolyi, who led Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton to Olympic gymnastics gold, dies.

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Nov. 10, 1975 in Lake Superior, in a violent storm on the lake. November can be a turbulent month for weather across Michigan, and gales – very strong winds – are ...

DULUTH — The guitar Gordon Lightfoot used to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," according to his longtime bassist, is being sold at auction along with several other items related to the ...