GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — When the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald was immortalized, so too was the ship’s namesake. Edmund Fitzgerald was a businessman in the Wisconsin area: the president of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LAKE SUPERIOR - Decades after it sank in a brutal Lake Superior storm, the Edmund Fitzgerald has transformed from a shipwreck into ...

50 years ago this week, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, claiming the lives of all 29 of its crew members. The fabled ship, immortalized by Canadian singer-songwriter ...

Late October and early November are for large wind storms in the Great Lakes. One such "November witch" lead to one of the most infamous ship sinkings in U.S. history. On Nov. 10, 1975, 50 years ago ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — A piece of Great Lakes maritime history is hitting the auction block this weekend at DuMouchelles in Detroit, offering collectors a rare ...

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 ...

No one was more surprised than Gordon Lightfoot when his ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" became one of the biggest hits of 1976, less than a year after the disaster it commemorates. The ...