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, ...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a 729-foot ore carrier that sank during a storm on the night of Nov. 10, 1975, in Lake Superior. Twenty-nine crew ...

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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.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — When the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald was immortalized, so too was the ship’s namesake. Edmund Fitzgerald was a businessman in the Wisconsin area: the president of ...

Captain Ernest McSorley and his crew were fighting for their lives in a battle against the "Witch of November" when his final words went out over the radio. “We are holding our own." Less than 15 ...