For 15-year-old Eryn Drayton, swimming in the historic relay also has personal meaning. She'll be swimming near Sugar Island, ...

Eryn Drayton will be fundraising for the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society and honoring her grandfather, who grew up ...

Dan and Sheila Fitzgerald, whose family’s roots stretch back nearly two centuries in Port Huron, are part of a wider effort ...

Sixty-eight swimmers will swim in a relay to finish the 411-mile journey the Edmund Fitzgerald never got to complete in ...

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

Stories about the Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald were on the front page of Detroit Free Press' Nov. 12, 1975 edition. The ship disappeared on Nov. 10 on Lake Superior and was later found ...

IRONWOOD, MI – Stormy Kromer is offering a special edition cap in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s ...

Referred to as the “Titanic of the Great Lakes” in some circles, the story of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald shares some traits with the famous British ocean liner that sank in 1912.

2023 Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Event: The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point in the Upper Peninsula will be offering a virtual memorial service on Friday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m.

When it was first launched, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship to set sail on the Great Lakes, according to the Michigan Maritime Museum. Unfortunately, the ship and its crew sank in 1975.

The Great Lakes have claimed some 6,000 ships since European explorers began navigating the waters in the 1600s, but few have captured the public s imagination as has the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Paradise is livestreaming its annual Edmund Fitzgerald remembrance at 7 p.m. Friday, in memory of the Great Lakes freighter that sank 48 years ago during a ...