The boat, officially named the Edmund Glizzgerald, was originally built in California in 1975 as a promotional item.

Discover the hidden dangers of the Great Lakes in John U. Bacon’s The Gales of November, a gripping new book on the Edmund Fitzgerald disaster.

How did the Edmund Fitzgerald—a massive freighter—vanish without a distress call? From rogue waves to structural failure, we break down 6 leading theories behind the ship’s sudden and tragic ...

On Nov. 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared from radar and slipped into the icy depths of Lake Superior — and legend. These Erieites remember it.

The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald was launched 75 years later. It was named after Edmond Fitzgerald’s great nephew, Edmund Fitzgerald. In 1975, it too sank during a November storm on the Great Lakes.

On Aug. 7, 1957, the Edmund Fitzgerald's keel was laid as Hull No. 301. The ship was 729 feet long and weighed 13,632 gross tons. It was the largest ship on the Great Lakes for 13 years, until 1971.

LAKE SUPERIOR, MI - It was 49 years ago today that the Edmund Fitzgerald was being loaded with 26,000 tons of iron ore, prepped for what would become its tragic final voyage. Once the largest ship ...

The captain of another ship that was a few miles behind the Fitzgerald during the storm, the Arthur M. Anderson, recorded wind gusts reaching 70 knots (nearly 81 miles per hour) and waves of up to ...

The winds hit 60 mph, the waves reached 25 feet, and the water was barely above freezing. It's hard to fathom a storm strong enough to bring down a ship the size of the Edmund Fitzgerald, yet it ...