lake freighters of Edmund Fitzgerald’s generation were essentially giant tubs. If they took on water, the lack of watertight bulkheads in the cargo hold would send the vessel to the seafloor like an ...

(WPBN/WGTU) -- Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. And starting next week, you can register for a month-long memorial swim from Lake Superior to Detroit.

In November 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore carrier ship, sank in Lake Superior during a storm, drowning 29 crew members. Lightfoot read an article about the tragedy in Newsweek magazine ...

Sunday marked the 49th anniversary of the day 29 mariners on the Edmund Fitzgerald freighter lost their lives in a storm on Lake Superior. Toledo has a special connection of the shipwreck as many ...