Milwaukee Public Library's Central Library is home to a collection of artifacts and files from a plethora of ships, including ...

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

The Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck went viral on social media as the 50th anniversary sparked trending posts and tributes across ...

Twenty-nine men died in the Great Lakes' most famous shipwreck. The Edmund Fitzgerald’s legacy endures for many reasons.

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

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

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

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the largest and most famous of the estimated ...

With the weather forecasting capabilities of today, the captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald may not have even embarked from port ...

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship ...