The doomed ship went down just 17 miles from safety. Could this evidence explain what went wrong?

Nearly fifty years ago, on Nov. 10, 1975, the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank and killed all 29 men aboard during a ferocious storm on Lake Superior, a modern maritime tragedy that has echoed for ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Monday is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, marking a half-century of fascination with one of the most infamous nautical ...

On the brilliant fall afternoon of November 9, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald glided out of Superior, Wisconsin, loaded with 26,000 tons of taconite pellets bound for Detroit. The vast expanse of Lake ...

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 ...

On November 10, 1975, the massive SS Edmund Fitzgerald set out across Lake Superior and vanished in one of the most chilling ...

It's been 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, claiming the lives of all 29 crew members aboard. The story of the ship and its crew members is one that ...

Thanks to an iconic ballad by Gordon Lightfoot, most people think they know the story of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, the ore carrier that sank in Lake Superior in November 1975. The mysterious sinking ...