It's been 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank among huge waves on Lake Superior, and its legend is just as gripping as ...
Before it met its demise 50 years ago, the ore freighter commissioned by Northwestern Mutual was the rock star of Great Lakes ...
Watch, read and reflect as we revisit the storm, the ship, and the souls aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald through exclusive ...
It is November now, and the winds are beginning to gather over the upper Great Lakes. I find myself returning in mind to the ...
Edmund Fitzgerald was a businessman in the Wisconsin area: the president of Northwestern Mutual in Milwaukee, which owned the ...
One huge November storm sank 18 ships and drowned more than 250 sailors on the lakes 62 years before the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in Lake Superior.
Off Buffalo, there was still ten inches of ice on Lake Erie. In the bay at Marquette, on Lake Superior, there was still broken ice. But off Toledo there was no ice visible within 20 miles of shore, ...
Subscribe to the Wake Up, cleveland.com’s free morning newsletter, delivered to your inbox weekdays at 5:30 a.m. Fifty years ...
The ship sank during a violent Lake Superior storm, killing all 29 men on board. The wreck was the biggest maritime investigation in Great Lakes history, but a half-century later, the cause remains a ...
Over Lake Superior last week blew a strong northwest wind. At Duluth it loosened ice floes at the harbor mouth, and the freighter John Gehm, first vessel to clear since last December, steamed out with ...
The gales of November bent the old box elder tree in our backyard. Little Bay de Noc churned and splashed not far from our ...