The Bradley was built in 1927 by the American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio. It was owned by the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Co. and built specifically to transfer limestone from a massive ...

The 50-year mark of the most well-known Great Lakes shipwreck just passed on Nov. 10, 2025 – the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It has gained popularity in ...

The 50th anniversary of the shipwreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald reminds us of how important the Great Lakes are as a conduit of commerce.

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

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

But long before that tragedy, talk of the Mighty Fitz had centered around a ship that was known as an engineering marvel. She ...

In the 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing her crew of 29, many advances in weather and technology have made bulk carrier shipping safer. Improvements include more real ...

So long as bulk carrier freighters move goods through the Great Lakes — and through the severe storms that can pop up in November and other months — the risk of an Edmund Fitzgerald-type disaster is ...

On Nov. 9, 1975, the Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald left port from Superior, Wisconsin, bound for Detroit's Zug Island with a load of 26,000 tons of iron ore pellets. The day was relatively ...