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How One Giant Freighter Vanished in a Great Lakes Storm

On a stormy night in 1975, a giant cargo ship vanished beneath Lake Superior. All 29 crew members were lost, and the cause ...
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Storied Edmund Fitzgerald signaled the end of an era for Great Lakes shipping

Sans Gordon Lightfoot and his song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," the Mighty Fitz would likely have disappeared from ...

Great Lakes’ deadly history: Edmund Fitzgerald was last major wreck, but far from the only one

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.

Erie mariners tell the story of the Edmund Fitzgerald and its sinking 50 years ago

Sailors through the years recalled the ship and its crew and where they were working during the gale of Nov. 10, 1975.

49 years later, Edmund Fitzgerald crew remembered in memorial ceremony

WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. (WLUC) - The legend lives on. The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior 49 years ago. All 29 crew ...