Sunday marked the 49th anniversary of the day 29 mariners on the Edmund Fitzgerald freighter lost their lives in a storm on ...

There were 29 men onboard. The Edmund Fitzgerald first sailed in 1958 and was more than 729 feet long. The 200-pound bell from the ship, recovered from the wreckage in 1995, is on display at the ...

The 729-foot-long Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior in 1975, taking down its entire 29-member crew, according to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The disaster even has a song dedicated to ...

SUPERIOR, Wis. — 2025 marks 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior, and a group in Superior, Wisconsin is ...

The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald marked a major turning point in the shipping industry. The ship sunk in 1975, claiming the lives of all 29 crew members. It has been immortalized in an ...

His recording of "Wreck of The Edmond Fitzgerald" was six and a half minutes long, which was usually a no-no for a hit record but the record hit, just the same. The single entered the pop charts ...

The wreck itself … not so much ... Let’s go over a few of those failures in slightly more detail: First, lake freighters of Edmund Fitzgerald’s generation were essentially giant tubs. If they took on ...

2025 is the “Year of the Fitz” in Superior, made official with a proclamation from Mayor Jim Paine on New Year’s Day. The Friends of the Fitz are a group both hosting events throughout the year and ...

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They're known as the gales of November, and they conjure images of hurricane-force winds, towering waves, ice-cold temperatures, and bobbing ships. The gales of November, also known as the ...