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.

A 729-foot ore boat that hauled taconite pellets from the Iron Range up north to the steel mills of the lower Great Lakes, ...

Nolan Church joined the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald as a porter late in life — a new career at age 50 after he was laid off from mining-related work in Silver Bay.

Milwaukee Public Library's Central Library is home to a collection of artifacts and files from a plethora of ships, including ...

Sans Gordon Lightfoot and his song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," the Mighty Fitz would likely have disappeared from ...

Beneath the waves of Lake Huron lie clues to the region’s prehistoric past. Scientists are in the midst of a years-old research project on what many are calling the “Pompeii of the Great Lakes.” First ...

MADISON (AP) — Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first ...