Half a century ago, on an unseasonably warm fall day, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald set off from the western edge of ...

What caused the SS Edmund Fitzgerald freighter to sink amid a violent storm on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, killing its 29 crew members, remains a point of debate and mystery a half-century later.

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior 50 years ago this November. The U.S. Coast Guard concluded the ship sank because of ineffective hatch closures after hitting a wall of water. However, ...

(WLUK) -- The Edmund Fitzgerald remains the last significant shipwreck to occur on the Great Lakes. It sank in the Canadian waters of Lake Superior in the first half of its journey to the Detroit area ...

“We are holding our own” – the last radio transmission by the SS Edmund Fitzgerald to the SS Arthur M. Anderson on November 10, 1975. This week marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS ...

Nearly fifty years ago, on Nov. 10, 1975, the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank and killed all 29 men aboard during a ferocious storm on Lake Superior, a modern maritime tragedy that has echoed for ...

STURGEON BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - 50 years ago, on November 10 th, the largest freighter on the Great Lakes sank in over 500 feet of icy cold Lake Superior water. The Edmund Fitzgerald lives on in song and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photograph of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald taken by an unnamed photographer on display at MSOE's Grohmann Museum as part of "The ...