Half a century ago, on an unseasonably warm fall day, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald set off from the western edge of ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald vanished without a mayday, leaving investigators with wreckage, competing theories, and no survivors. This is how the evidence fits together into one plausible chain of events, ...

Some of the most important clues in the mystery of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald may be the smallest ones. And they could still be fastened to its deck. When the doomed freighter launched in 1958, it was ...

On November 10, 1975, the massive SS Edmund Fitzgerald set out across Lake Superior and vanished in one of the most chilling maritime disasters in American history. Battling hurricane-force winds and ...

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 ...