On Nov. 10, 1975 — a half-century ago next Monday — a Great Lakes freighter measuring 729 feet long and weighing 13,000 tons empty and carrying more than twice that weight in iron ore pellets sank, ...

For those that live or have lived around the American Great Lakes region, the story of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is likely familiar. It was, to date, the largest ship to ever sink in those waters, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975 remains one of the most legendary and tragic events in Great Lakes history, particularly for Northern Ohio, where nearly half of ...

Thanks to an iconic ballad by Gordon Lightfoot, most people think they know the story of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, the ore carrier that sank in Lake Superior in November 1975. The mysterious sinking ...