LAKE HURON — In a frustrating irony, the commemorative swim meant to complete the interrupted voyage of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald through the Great Lakes might itself not get to finish the journey ...

These days, when someone mentions the Edmund Fitzgerald, our minds immediately flip to Gordon Lightfoot’s iconic ballad that tells the tale of the freighter’s terrible sinking in a Lake Superior storm ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The National Museum of the Great Lakes will be remembering the tragic loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald by holding a weekend of events during its 50 year anniversary Friday, Nov. 7- Monday, ...

No one was more surprised than Gordon Lightfoot when his ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" became one of the biggest hits of 1976, less than a year after the disaster it commemorates. The ...

50 years ago this week, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, claiming the lives of all 29 of its crew members. The fabled ship, immortalized by Canadian singer-songwriter ...

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a... 50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ...