The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm. The mighty ship, ...
As I write this column, it is the 50th anniversary to the day — Nov. 10, 1975 — of the sinking on Lake Superior of the majestic Great Lakes freighter, Edmund Fitzgerald, amid the storm of the century.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Not since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down 50 years ago today has a giant freighter been lost on the Great Lakes, but prior to then, a number of big ships met their demise, often in ...
TOLEDO, Ohio — Nearly 50 years after the Edmund Fitzgerald vanished on Lake Superior, another Great Lakes giant — right here in Toledo — continues to tell its story. The Col. James M. Schoonmaker, now ...
LUDINGTON, MI - The Armistice Day Storm of 1940 was a freak weather event that killed more than 150 people, including 64 sailors on Lake Michigan. Hurricane-force winds were whipping up 40-foot waves ...