Now, he sat behind a desk and behind that was a huge map — maybe three by four feet — of the Great Lakes. Not a decorative ...

It set multiple records for the largest season-hauls. Built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Mich., the ship launched in 1958. It was the first lake freighter built to the maximum ...

While its geology is vastly different from an ocean, Lake Michigan often appears like one. One reviewer described it on ...

LAKE SUPERIOR, MI - It was 49 years ago today that the Edmund Fitzgerald was being loaded with 26,000 tons of iron ore, ...

In 1967, it was finally sold for scrap and was to be towed to Europe. On Nov. 5, nearly 54 years to the day it ran aground on ...