Thousands of vessels — 6,000 or more — lie at the bottom of the Great Lakes. Several hundred could lie beneath the waves in the part of Lake Michigan that falls under Illinois’ ...

An expedition to the Edmund Fitzgerald site hasn’t happened since July 1995. That year, a team recovered the ship’s bell — ...

Friends and family members gathered at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to ring the bell and remember those who died 50 years ago.

It's been 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank among huge waves on Lake Superior, and its legend is just as gripping as ever.

Lawrence Kaehler packed for a week. Bread. Peanut butter. Ramen noodles. Enough bottled water to last the final seven days of a three-week solo voyage aboard Alestorm, his 30-foot sailboat. The ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald is the most well known shipwrck in the Great Lakes, partly because it was the last major freighter to ...

Members of the New York State Park Police assisted the New York Power Authority with the removal of a Lake Erie ice boom ...

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.

Twenty-nine men died in the Great Lakes' most famous shipwreck. The Edmund Fitzgerald’s legacy endures for many reasons.

Sailors through the years recalled the ship and its crew and where they were working during the gale of Nov. 10, 1975.

When the Edmund Fitzgerald sank, it was up to the crew of the Arthur M. Anderson to go search for survivors. Then, it was up ...

Gordon Lightfoot and his band ensured the 29 souls lost when the freighter sank in Lake Superior are still remembered 50 ...