Sans Gordon Lightfoot and his song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," the Mighty Fitz would likely have disappeared from ...

The last ship to be in contact with the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975, was the S.S. Arthur M. Anderson. The Anderson was ...

Milwaukee Public Library's Central Library is home to a collection of artifacts and files from a plethora of ships, including ...

The arrival of American Cruise Lines coincides with a record-breaking forecast for the 2026 Great Lakes cruising season.

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 ...

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship ...

Contributor Jackie Sheckler Finch sails on Victory II, one of the growing number of Great Lakes Cruises wooing travelers. John Waggoner felt too young to retire. So, when he saw that two of the ships ...

(CNN) — Research vessel Blue Heron trawls the Great Lakes, gathering data from the water. The floating laboratory’s most recent discovery, however, came from an unexpected location: its own rudder.