Fifty years ago this month, the gales of November swallowed the SS Edmund Fitzgerald along with her crew of 29 men, one of the largest ships to go down on Lake Superior and the Great Lakes. Remembered ...

Of all the rivers in the world, the St. Lawrence River is undeniably one of the most challenging for mariners. This water highway is at some spots as narrow as a large river and, at others, as wide as ...

DULUTH — Tanner Johnson has studied a lot of shipwrecks. In terms of popular fascination, though, few shipwrecks compare to the foundering of the Edmund Fitzgerald in a 1975 Lake Superior storm, with ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald vanished from the surface of Lake Superior 49 years ago this week. The ore carrier left behind an oil slick, debris and two empty lifeboats. It was an ominous ending — mysterious ...

Lake Superior is home to over 500 shipwrecks that visitors can see for themselves, whether by diving or glass-bottom boat ...

The discoveries mean that the boat is one of the largest and most intact ancient wooden shipwrecks ever found in the country.