PRESQUE ISLE, MI – Thick fog hung over Lake Huron on June 18, 1905. The 414-foot steamer Etruria was sailing northbound. The 545-foot freighter Amaza Stone was speeding southbound. The two ships ...
It's been 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank among huge waves on Lake Superior, and its legend is just as gripping as ever.
One huge November storm sank 18 ships and drowned more than 250 sailors on the lakes 62 years before the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in Lake Superior.
Friends and family members gathered at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to ring the bell and remember those who died 50 years ago.
Lake Huron sits on the border between the U.S. and Canada. The freshwater lake features state parks, great fishing and underwater shipwreck preserves. Dozens of lighthouses line the Michigan shores of ...