Before it met its demise 50 years ago, the ore freighter commissioned by Northwestern Mutual was the rock star of Great Lakes ...

It's been 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank among huge waves on Lake Superior, and its legend is just as gripping as ...

The Great Lakes’ most famous shipwreck was 50 years ago. Theories abound, but the Fitzgerald wouldn’t have even been on Lake Superior if not for the medical bills of the captain’s wife.

Edmund Fitzgerald was a businessman in the Wisconsin area: the president of Northwestern Mutual in Milwaukee, which owned the ...

One huge November storm sank 18 ships and drowned more than 250 sailors on the lakes 62 years before the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in Lake Superior.

It is November now, and the winds are beginning to gather over the upper Great Lakes. I find myself returning in mind to the ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald remains the last significant shipwreck to occur on the Great Lakes.It sank in the Canadian waters of ...

Off Buffalo, there was still ten inches of ice on Lake Erie. In the bay at Marquette, on Lake Superior, there was still broken ice. But off Toledo there was no ice visible within 20 miles of shore, ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. INTERVIEWER: If you've had the chance to visit the Lake Superior Marine Museum, which is next to the Aerial Lift Bridge in Canal Park in Duluth, there is ...

The gales of November bent the old box elder tree in our backyard. Little Bay de Noc churned and splashed not far from our ...