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

The Anderson was called upon to help search for the ill-fated Edmund Fitzgerald in rough Lake Superior waters in 1975. The Fitzgerald, an ore carrier, sank Nov. 10, 1975. (AP Photo/Jim Mone) AP ...

The 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is being memorialized by swimmers who plan to complete the journey ...

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

The story of the Edmund Fitzgerald holds different memories for everyone.On that fateful November evening back in 1975, life ...

The crew aboard the USCGC HOLLYHOCK visited the site of the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, tossing 29 roses into the water - one for each mariner lost in the sinking during a storm on Nov. 10 ...

LiveScience: A "hindcast" blames the famous wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on hurricane-force gusts and waves coming from an unexpected angle.

Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian folk singer who died on Monday at 84, had one hit in particular that famously defied Top 40 logic. “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” his 1976 folk ballad ...

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.

The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: On this date (Nov. 10) in 1975, the 729-foot ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank at 7:10 p.m. during a violent Lake Superior storm that brought 70 m.p.h. winds ...

Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” was played in schools as historical text, tolled over radio waves and deployed to inspire mandatory reverence.

Both are members of the local Moose club, where "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a favorite selection by patrons. At her Ogdensburg home, Ms. McSorley has several items of memorabilia to ...