The doomed ship went down just 17 miles from safety. Could this evidence explain what went wrong?
On Nov. 10, 1975 — a half-century ago next Monday — a Great Lakes freighter measuring 729 feet long and weighing 13,000 tons empty and carrying more than twice that weight in iron ore pellets sank, ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Half a century ago, on an unseasonably warm fall day, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald set off from the western edge of Lake Superior with a ...
One moment she was holding her own, the next she vanished from radar without a distress call or a single survivor. Here's how ...
They're known as the gales of November, and they conjure images of hurricane-force winds, towering waves, ice-cold temperatures, and bobbing ships. Also known as the "witches" of November, they occur ...
The Great Lakes are vast and vital shipping lanes, moving essential goods across North America. From the late 1950s through 1975,no freighter set more records or earned more respect than the Edmund ...
Thanks to an iconic ballad by Gordon Lightfoot, most people think they know the story of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, the ore carrier that sank in Lake Superior in November 1975. The mysterious sinking ...