From hand-built canoes to massive freighters, violent storms have tested ships for centuries and led to tragedies that ...
But long before that tragedy, talk of the Mighty Fitz had centered around a ship that was known as an engineering marvel. She ...
Sans Gordon Lightfoot and his song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," the Mighty Fitz would likely have disappeared from ...
There’s something special about landmark anniversaries and the media coverage that they attract. We’ll have one such event on Monday. It’s the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Great Lakes ...
On a stormy night in 1975, a giant cargo ship vanished beneath Lake Superior. All 29 crew members were lost, and the cause ...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of the thousands of ships ...
SAULT STE. MARIE, MI – The Soo Locks are open. That means ships are moving through all of the Great Lakes, bringing out “boat nerds” for spring ship watching. Whether they’re navigating a narrow ...
The SS Alpena, the oldest working freighter on Michigan's Great Lakes, is back on course for another shipping season. As of 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 28, the ship was en route from Cleveland, Ohio, and was on ...