It has been a half-century since the ship sank on Lake Superior, and a pop single memorialized its fate. Now museums are ...

The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm.

Ask any Michigan child to name two famous shipwrecks and, chances are, they’ll say the Titanic and the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The new book comes just ahead of the 50th anniversary of perhaps the Great Lakes’ most legendary maritime disaster.

A guitar Gordon Lightfoot used to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" sold for $350,000, while other items related to that song went for four- and five-figure prices. A model of the Edmund ...