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

Fifty years after the Great Lakes freighter sank, scientists can explain the weather that still haunts Lake Superior.

The tragedy spurred new safety measures and change among shipping companies, government agencies, and weather forecasters.

Also known as the "witches" of November, they occur between mid-October and mid-December, when storm tracks collide over the Great Lakes, ...

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

On a stormy night in 1975, a giant cargo ship vanished beneath Lake Superior. All 29 crew members were lost, and the cause ...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald turned heads when she was launched in Detroit in 1958. The ship was longer and could carry more taconite than any other Great Lakes freighter, and it boasted plush quarters ...

The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm. The mighty ship, ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Modern day freighters are massive - the Edmund Fitzgerald stood more than 700 feet long and weighed over 13,000 tons. Today’s ships are designed off the back of generations of shipping ...