The SS Arlington vanished in a Lake Superior storm in 1940 and was never seen again. Eighty years later, the ship was ...
Picture yourself deep under the frigid waves of the enormous Lake Superior. As you skim along the rocky bottom, an enormous shape emerges from the gloom. This isn't something natural — the lines are ...
No one was more surprised than Gordon Lightfoot when his ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" became one of the biggest hits of 1976, less than a year after the disaster it commemorates. The ...
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior 50 years ago this November. The U.S. Coast Guard concluded the ship sank because of ineffective hatch closures after hitting a wall of water. However, ...
On Nov. 9, 1975, the Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald left port from Superior, Wisconsin, bound for Detroit's Zug Island with a load of 26,000 tons of iron ore pellets. The day was relatively ...
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a... 50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ...