The Edmund Fitzgerald had made the journey over 50 times that year and its final voyage started out like any other journey.

David “Cowboy” Weiss was a wild-hearted, cocky and freshly minted cadet from Traverse City’s new Great Lakes Maritime Academy. His first assignment: To board the Edmund Fitzgerald. One sailor’s story ...

On Nov. 10, 1975, TV anchor Dennis Anderson was preparing for the 10 p.m. news. John Crowley was at a Duluth bar with some Coast Guard shipmates. Their lives were about to change forever.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the largest and most famous of the estimated ...

Terrence Tysall set a record scuba diving to the Edmund Fitzgerald. Ric Mixter dove in a submersible, finding a missing body. Here are their stories.

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

November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of all the estimated ...

The state of Michigan has acquired a life ring that washed ashore 50 years ago from the Edmund Fitzgerald - a rare artifact ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Edmund Fitzgerald’s story isn’t just Great Lakes history — it’s personal history for two northwest Ohio sailors who once served aboard the ship long before its fateful final voyage.

TOLEDO, Ohio — Nearly 50 years after the Edmund Fitzgerald vanished on Lake Superior, another Great Lakes giant — right here in Toledo — continues to tell its story. The Col. James M. Schoonmaker, now ...

JOHN U. BACON: Presents “The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” 7 p.m. Tuesday, Magers & Quinn, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S., Mpls. ‘Take This Phone And Shove It!’ Author wants to ...