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

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

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

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

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.

MADISON, Wis. — The Great Lakes’ frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards. Downed planes that spent decades underwater were ...

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.

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.

What's the most famous November shipwreck? The 729-foot-long Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior in 1975, taking down its entire 29-member crew, according to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum.

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 ...

More: Guarding the Great Lakes: A lake-by-lake look at the impact of climate change The gales of November were not a surprise on Nov. 10, 1975, the day the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior ...

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.