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

November is a month well known for being a transition month on the Great Lakes. Powerful storms, intense winds, arctic air ...

This week’s Dig In starts with a somber toast to the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. Nov. 10 marks the 50th anniversary of the ship’s sinking beneath the waters of ...

The British ocean liner was torpedoed by the Germans during World War I, killing over one thousand people and changing the ...

When it launched from the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan, in 1958, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship in the Great Lakes. For roughly a year, the 729-foot vessel was ...

One of the coolest pieces of irony about our planet is that the ocean covers most of the surface of the Earth, and yet, the ...

Sailors through the years recalled the ship and its crew and where they were working during the gale of Nov. 10, 1975.

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

The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald was considered the largest and fastest Great Lakes ship. It set multiple records for the largest ...

To understand what sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald, it’s important to break the sinking down into its components: the slow loss of ...

The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald remains a pivotal moment in maritime history, prompting significant safety advancements ...