Retelling shipwreck stories help keep the memories of their victims alive. How the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, SS Carl D. Bradley ...
But long before that tragedy, talk of the Mighty Fitz had centered around a ship that was known as an engineering marvel. She ...
With the weather forecasting capabilities of today, the captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald may not have even embarked from port.
In the words of Gordon Lightfoot, “The searchers all say they’d have made Whitefish Bay if they’d put 15 more miles behind ...
Rix Mixter, who is one of few divers to visit the Edmund Fitzgerald remains, discussed the Great Lakes' most famous shipwreck ...
The Edmund Fitzgerald changed its route across Lake Superior to protect itself from the violent storm that was coming. It proved fatal.
November can be a dynamic weather month since the handoff between fall and winter is fully underway, which means there's ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the ...
Also known as the "witches" of November, they occur between mid-October and mid-December, when storm tracks collide over the ...
The history of courageous ship mascot animals who braved Great Lakes storms alongside their mariners will be chronicled on April 21, when researcher Ric Mixter visits the Marysville Library. The free ...