Descendants of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s namesake return to Port Huron to honor their roots and help complete the freighter’s ...

They’ll start at Whitefish Point on July 26th where the cargo ship sank and end at Belle Isle in Detroit on August 26th. The trek will be split into 17 stages, with 4 swimmers participating in each ...

Edwards' family will hold memorial services in Old Fort at a later date." The bodies of the 29 crewmen from the Edmund Fitzgerald were never recovered. The family of Thomas Edwards placed a marker in ...

A guitar Gordon Lightfoot used to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" sold for $350,000, while other items related to that song went for four- and five-figure prices. A model of the Edmund ...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum's annual Edmund Fitzgerald memorial ceremony was livestreamed at 7 p.m. The ship was created as a business project for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald inspired the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot. Next year, a memorial swim will mark the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Most people know about the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald thanks to Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad. But how did the largest ship on the Great Lakes vanish without so much as an SOS call, taking all 29 ...

(WOOD) — When people think of Great Lakes tragedies, several shipwrecks come to mind: the Edmund Fitzgerald ... According to the Eastland Memorial Society, the boat leaned to the port side ...

Registration opened at 8 a.m. Monday for the Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim, which will start on July 26, 2025. The ship sank during a storm on Lake Superior in 1975, leaving 29 dead and 26,000 ...