The Edmund Fitzgerald, a freighter that went down in a November 1975 storm that was immortalized in the Gordon Lightfoot song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," sank off Whitefish Point within 100 ...

Around 200 ships have sunk in Whitefish Bay, the same place where the Western Reserve broke apart. The most notable in the ...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society made the initial ... The most notable in the area happened in 1975 when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, an American freighter, wrecked, killing 29 people on ...

Although the Western Reserve was found in Lake Superior, estimates suggest there are more than 1,700 ships resting just in Lake Michigan.

This freighter lay undiscovered for 132 years until this past summer when a team with the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society discovered the wreckage 600 feet down off the coast of Michigan ...

Illinois to become a chief engineer on a half-century-long career sailing the Great Lakes. The book recounts life on the open seas when Baxter sailed on the L.E. Block lake freighter that was ...

A historic all-steel ship that broke records as it cruised the Great Lakes but came to a tragic end has been found ... wheelsman Harry W. Stewart. The freighter set forth from Cleveland for Two ...

Using a remotely operated vehicle, teams were able to find the wreck of the Western Reserve steamship, which sank on Aug. 30, ...

Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great ... traverse the lakes. Built to break speed records, the 300-foot (91-meter) freighter dubbed ...