The Gales of November” takes a look back at the SS Edmund Fitzgerald nearly 50 years after its sinking. The 729-foot Great ...

The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm.

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) After spending the entire winter season in Buffalo, the lake freighter American Mariner was delayed leaving Buffalo Monday. The 715 foot long bulk carrier attempted to leave ...

DULUTH — The Western Reserve, a mammoth and nearly new steam freighter, was en route to Two Harbors in August 1892 when it split in half during a storm and quickly sank to the depths of Lake Superior, ...

While the Fitzgerald may be at the bottom of Lake Superior, the Schoonmaker now lives in Toledo harbor as a museum ship. The ...

The green glow of the aurora borealis could be seen from the M/V Lee A. Tregurtha as it traversed Lake Superior overnight. Several photos of the Northern Lights were posted today to Interlake ...

GARY | Thick lake ice slowed them down, but the first freighters of the season are headed to Northwest Indiana ports. U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard cutters have been clearing a path through ice-choked ...

A U.S. Coast Guard MH-60 helicopter conducted an airlift operation to rescue a patient from a freighter on Lake Superior due to a medical emergency. The helicopter, dispatched from Traverse City on ...

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 ...

Highland sailor Bob Baxter has seen things you couldn't believe: the Northern Lights, St. Elmo's Fire, the Gales of November that sunk the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and the boundless expanses of the Great ...

The same technology was used to map the famous Endurance shipwreck, which lies 10,000 feet beneath the water near Antarctica.