Swimmers Sheila Fitzgerald, Ed Shumaker and Sally Steinborn sit along the Lake Huron shoreline in Port Huron. The trio is ...

The Edmond Fitzgerald (not to be confused with the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald) was a wind-powered wooden ship that was carrying wheat when it sank in November 1883.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was not only an ore-hauling workhorse with nearly 750 round trips to her credit, she was also the largest freighter on The Great Lakes for 13 of her 17 years.

Nov. 1—Lewiston's annual Tribute to the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck will take on a special meaning this year. In recognition of Gordon Lightfoot, the writer of "The Wreck of the Edmund ...

Forty-eight years ago Friday, hurricane-force winds sunk the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, killing all 29 crew on board.

How ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ Defied Top 40 Logic Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 folk ballad told the true story of a shipwreck on Lake Superior.

The photos of the Fitzgerald's wreckage, sitting in two pieces at the bottom of Lake Superior, are haunting to look at.

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior 49 years ago. All 29 crew members died. They were remembered Sunday night.

The winds hit 60 mph, the waves reached 25 feet, and the water was barely above freezing. It's hard to fathom a storm strong enough to bring down a ship the size of the Edmund Fitzgerald, yet it ...

The bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Paradise, Michigan. The bell was recovered in 1995 at the request of family members of the victims as a way to ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald's bell now is displayed at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point. Canadian explorer Joseph MacInnis led a 1995 expedition to recover it.