The recently discovered Western Reserve wreck is providing lessons about shipbuilding, underwater archaeology and the ...

Swimmers will carry iron ore pellets from the Edmund Fitzgerald’s last dock to Detroit, commemorating the 29 crew lost in ...

Historians are racing to locate Great Lakes shipwrecks before a seemingly unstoppable invasive mussel destroys them and erases part of the region's heritage.

Edmund Fitzgerald’s legacy returns to Port Huron 50 years after the wreck S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald memorialized in relay swim event retracing ship's planned route on its last voyage ...

On Nov. 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared from radar and slipped into the icy depths of Lake Superior — and legend. These Erieites remember it.

A guitar Gordon Lightfoot used to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" sold for $350,000, while other items related to that song went for four- and five-figure prices.

Last weekend marked 49 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, during which 29 men lost their lives to a November gale during a routine voyage. I bring this up because Gordon ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Sunday marked the 49th anniversary of the day 29 mariners on the Edmund Fitzgerald freighter lost their lives in a storm on Lake Superior. Toledo has a special connection of the ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald inspired the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot. Next year, a memorial swim will mark the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Lost to the depths of the Great Lakes, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank on November 10, 49 years ago. We took a look back through the lens of a man who has laid eyes on the site himself.

Former Sun Times News Publisher/Owner Bob Nester helped organize an expedition in 1989 to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Here, he recounts the mission and the emotion around it, suggesting, too, ...