One huge November storm sank 18 ships and drowned more than 250 sailors on the lakes 62 years before the Edmund Fitzgerald ...
The catastrophic weather event, known as the “White Hurricane,” struck the Great Lakes between November 7-11, 1913, bringing ...
The tragedy spurred new safety measures and change among shipping companies, government agencies, and weather forecasters.
Twenty-nine sailors drowned in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975, and the ship was immortalized in a surprise hit ...
Ask any Michigan child to name two famous shipwrecks and, chances are, they’ll say the Titanic and the Edmund Fitzgerald.
With the weather forecasting capabilities of today, the captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald may not have even embarked from port.
Sailors through the years recalled the ship and its crew and where they were working during the gale of Nov. 10, 1975.
Shipwrecks, storms, final words: historian Ric Mixter traces the Great Lakes' haunting messages in bottles. Before radio ...