Author John U. Bacon would bet otherwise. Bacon grew up in Michigan and thought he knew the story, too, until he started ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy” (Michigan State University Press, $29.95), uncovers more of ...

NASHOTAH, Wis. — Without Gordon Lightfoot's song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 other ships that went down in the Great Lakes before it.

DETROIT (AP) — A life ring and a piece of a lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald were sold at auction Friday for $150,000, a month after the 50th anniversary of the famous ship’s sinking in Lake ...

There have been six sanctioned expeditions of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The ship sank in Canadian waters in 1975 and rests 535-feet below the surface of Lake Superior. The last dive was approved in 1995 ...

Forty-six years ago this week, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a storm as the boat carried iron ore toward Detroit from Superior, Wis. As Gordon Lightfoot sang... (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE WRECK OF THE ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A life ring from the Edmund Fitzgerald will be auctioned off later this month in Detroit. DuMouchelles announced the life ring, along with a plank from one of the ...

DETROIT (AP) — A life ring and a piece of a lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald were sold at auction Friday for $150,000, a month after the 50th anniversary of the famous ship's sinking in Lake ...

FILE - A rare life ring from the 1975 shipwreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald obtained by the state of Michigan in a lawsuit settlement is displayed on Oct. 12, 2025, outside Detroit. (Randal Smith via AP, ...