The Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim, as it’s called, is a 411-mile relay staged to honor the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the infamous freighter in Lake Superior during a winter storm on Nov. 10 ...

In November 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald encountered a treacherous storm while steaming across Lake Superior. All 29 crew ...

Sixty-eight swimmers will swim in a relay to finish the 411-mile journey the Edmund Fitzgerald never got to complete in November 1975.

On Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald was sailing across Lake Superior and loaded with more than 26,000 tons of taconite ore pellets when it ran into a storm packing 70-knot winds and producing ...

2023 Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Event: The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point in the Upper Peninsula will be offering a virtual memorial service on Friday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m.

It was exactly 40 years ago Tuesday when “the winds of November came early” and took the legendary Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald and 29 souls to the bottom of Lake Superior, a… ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald sunk 48 years ago on Nov. 10 during a storm on Lake Superior. Here's how its impact is still felt today across the Great Lakes region today.

It was 40 years ago that the Edmund Fitzgerald was lost in Lake Superior. Historian Christopher Winters recently co-authored a book, The Legend Lives On, commemorating the sinking and it will be ...

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.

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank with its 29 crew members in a fierce storm on Lake Superior Nov. 10, 1975. The tragedy was immortalized in the 1976 ballad, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” by ...

2022 Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Event: The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point in the Upper Peninsula will be offering a virtual memorial service on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m.