Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the sinking, Bacon’s book promises to be the most comprehensive account yet of ...

LAKE SUPERIOR, MI - It was 50 years ago today that the Edmund Fitzgerald was being loaded with 26,000 tons of iron ore, prepped for what would become her tragic final voyage. Once the largest ship on ...

MARQUETTE, Mich. — Spend enough time along the shores of Lake Superior and it won’t be long before there’s some reminder of what happened “when the gales of November came early.” This year marks the ...

NASHOTAH, Wis.(AP) — 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 ...

News 8 is producing a series of stories that will be published in the days leading up to Nov. 10, the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It will culminate with a WOOD TV+ special ...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, once the largest ship on the Great Lakes, sank during a Lake Superior storm on Nov. 10, 1975, killing all 29 crew on board.

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Monday is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, marking a half-century of fascination with one of the most infamous nautical ...

For the past several years, a Gordon Lightfoot song from 1976 has become an unlikely seasonal meme. The song, of course, is “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” a mournful ballad of the true story of ...

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was released in 1976, less than a year after the ship sank in Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot’s song peaked at number two on the Billboard chart that same year.

According to the description on Barnes & Noble’s website, Bacon’s narrative is built on “more than 100 interviews with the families, friends, and former crewmates of those lost.” The author “draws on ...