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

From hand-built canoes to massive freighters, violent storms have tested ships for centuries and led to tragedies that ...

Sans Gordon Lightfoot and his song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," the Mighty Fitz would likely have disappeared from ...

The last ship to be in contact with the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975, was the S.S. Arthur M. Anderson. The Anderson was ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean gave ...

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

The arrival of American Cruise Lines coincides with a record-breaking forecast for the 2026 Great Lakes cruising season.

Shipping season is underway on the Great Lakes; and while nearly everyone is familiar with the dangers if "the gales of November come early," sailors know just as well how dangerous early season ...