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

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 Nov. 10, 1975 — a half-century ago next Monday — a Great Lakes freighter measuring 729 feet long and weighing 13,000 tons empty and carrying more than twice that weight in iron ore pellets sank, ...

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 ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Nov. 10, 2025, is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The captain was from Ottawa Hills and six crewmen also called Northwest Ohio home. The ship sank ...

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 ...