Hosted on MSN

Michigan drops bid for Edmund Fitzgerald life ring in $600k settlement

LANSING, MI — A rare life ring found after the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking will stay with its original owner after it was included in a Michigan police misconduct lawsuit settlement. Larry Orr, 77, of ...
clickondetroit.com

Relic from the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is returned, plus $600,000 from Michigan

FILE - The Fitzgerald in a 1959 file photo, with a crew of 28 to 30 men, was carrying a load of 26,216 tons of taconite pellets. (AP Photo, file) (Uncredited ...
10TV.com

Retired AP reporter helped cement the legend of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

LANSING, Mich.(AP) — Associated Press reporter Harry Atkins was far from Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, “when the gales of November came early." But his news coverage the following day of the ...
Yahoo

Thousands attend Edmund Fitzgerald 50th memorial ceremony at Whitefish Point

Thousands of people gathered at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point on a windswept section of Lake Superior on Monday, Nov. 10 to mark the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the SS ...