November is a month well known for being a transition month on the Great Lakes. Powerful storms, intense winds, arctic air ...

Twenty-nine sailors drowned in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975, and the ship was immortalized in a surprise hit ...

Toledo residents continue to honor the lives of the men lost in the shipwreck made famous by Gordon Lightfoot’s haunting ...

Fifty years on, John U. Bacon has written a new account of the disaster. In “ The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, ” he humanizes the tragedy, telling stories of each man ...

The ship was the pride of the American side, coming back from some mill in Wisconsin, when a November gale doomed the Edmund ...

The story of the Edmund Fitzgerald still resonates 50 years after it sank off the coast of the Upper Peninsula's Whitefish ...

Modern technology provides the ability to learn definitively what sank the Edmund Fitzgerald — if the restrictions over ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared into the icy waters of Lake Superior with 29 men aboard — including crew from Northeast Ohio. Nearly half a century later, ...

With the weather forecasting capabilities of today, the captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald may not have even embarked from port.

WHITEFISH BAY, MI - In hindsight, these snippets of radio conversation are heartbreaking. They were spoken on Nov. 10, 1975, a short time after the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared from radar ...

DULUTH — As the world marks a half-century since the loss of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the Duluth News Tribune will release a five-episode podcast exploring the freighter's story from its launch to ...

Nov. 10, 2025, will mark 50 years since the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing its 29 crew members. The large freighter was set to deliver more than 27,000 tons of iron ore to Detroit ...