GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — When the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald was immortalized, so too was the ship’s namesake. Edmund Fitzgerald was a businessman in the Wisconsin area: the president of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Captain Ernest McSorley and his crew were fighting for their lives in a battle against the "Witch of November" when his final ...
There have been six sanctioned expeditions of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The ship sank in Canadian waters in 1975 and rests 535-feet below the surface of Lake Superior. The last dive was approved in 1995 ...
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 ...
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 ...
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — Museum Ship Valley Camp curator Paul Sabourin is a walking encyclopedia of maritime knowledge, but the question he gets most often is the one that's hardest to answer. "I ...
The Edmund Fitzgerald was transporting iron ore when it sank in November 1975, killing all 29 crew members. Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society In November 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald encountered ...
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News 8 is producing a series of stories that will be published in the days leading up to Nov. 10, the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It will culminate with a WOOD TV+ special ...
DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan is giving up ownership of a rare relic from the famous Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck, just weeks after it strangely obtained it through a settlement in a lawsuit ...
The last ship to be in contact with the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975, was the S.S. Arthur M. Anderson. The Anderson was sailing the Great Lakes earlier this year, as she went to Toledo for what ...