Edmund Fitzgerald was a businessman in the Wisconsin area: the president of Northwestern Mutual in Milwaukee, which owned the ...
Sailors through the years recalled the ship and its crew and where they were working during the gale of Nov. 10, 1975.
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 ...
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Open Record: Gales of November

To commemorate five decades since the tragedy of the Edmund Fitzgerald, FOX6 has produced an all-new documentary that dives ...
From hand-built canoes to massive freighters, violent storms have tested ships for centuries and led to tragedies that ...
Powerful storms, intense winds, arctic air and even bursts of warmth all play a role in creating the tumbler of weather the ...
The Edmund Fitzgerald changed its route across Lake Superior to protect itself from the violent storm that was coming. It ...
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.
Netflix's latest Polish historical drama miniseries, Heweliusz, delves into the 1993 tragic sinking of the Polish Ocean ...
Monday is the 50th anniversary of one of the most tragic and well-known shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, the sinking of the ...
Fifty years ago on Nov. 10, 1975, the 729-foot lake freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a severe gale in Lake Superior. All 29 crewmembers were lost. It was the largest ship ever to sink in the ...
It's one of the most well-known shipwrecks in American history. This Monday marks 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank ...