It was a calm and clear afternoon when the Edmund Fitzgerald left port in Superior, Wisconsin, on November 9, 1975. The ...

The state of Michigan has acquired a life ring that washed ashore 50 years ago from the Edmund Fitzgerald, a rare artifact ...

Taxpayers are paying $600,000 to settle the lawsuit by Larry Orr, who accused a state police officer of violating his rights ...

WHITEFISH POINT, MI - The most storied shipwreck in the Great Lakes will mark its 50th anniversary this fall. To mark the tragic sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical ...

It's been nearly 50 years since the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior. The shipwreck is one of the most well-known in the world, yet so much is still unknown. Twenty-nine men died in ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck is coming up on 50 years and local historians are looking for one of the last radios to be in contact with the ill-fated voyage. A 1974 Coast Guard radio made the final ...

As the Edmund Fitzgerald loaded its cargo hold on a Sunday afternoon in the fall, the Wisconsin shore of Lake Superior was unseasonably warm. About 30 hours later, near Michigan’s Whitefish Point and ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Modern day freighters are massive - the Edmund Fitzgerald stood more than 700 feet long and weighed over 13,000 tons. Today’s ships are designed off the back of generations of shipping ...

The state of Michigan has acquired a life ring that washed ashore 50 years ago from the Edmund Fitzgerald. The artifact ...