Retelling shipwreck stories help keep the memories of their victims alive. How the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, SS Carl D. Bradley ...

Fifty years after the freighter disappeared into the depths of Lake Superior, the mystery of its demise—and the mournful ...

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

Fifty years ago, one of the largest freighters ever to set sail in the Great Lakes region went down in a violent storm.

It's been 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank among huge waves on Lake Superior, and its legend is just as gripping as ever.

Right now, you can visit The History Museum in South Bend to check out a new exhibit called “ Freshwater Fury: Great Lakes ...

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

A nail-biting drama played out just off the tip of Michigan’s northernmost peninsula. It's almost too amazing to believe.

MADISON, Wis. — The Great Lakes’ frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards. Downed planes that spent decades underwater were left so ...

Ask any Michigan child to name two famous shipwrecks and, chances are, they’ll say the Titanic and the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The 16,000-square-foot museum is memorializing the Nov. 10, 1975, tragedy of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald with a weekend of ...

The second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes, an American-built, Canadian-owned sloop that sank in Lake Ontario more than 200 years ago, has been found, a team of underwater explorers said ...