The museum has announced an Edmund Fitzgerald speaker panel, which is planned for Friday, Nov. 7 at 6:30 p.m. Taking part in ...

The Gales of November” takes a look back at the SS Edmund Fitzgerald nearly 50 years after its sinking. The 729-foot Great ...

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

The SS Alpena, the oldest working freighter on Michigan's Great Lakes, is back on course for another shipping season. As of 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 28, the ship was en route from Cleveland, Ohio, and was on ...

On this episode of Great Lakes Now: It’s been 50 years since a freighter sank in the Great Lakes, but in June 2024, one ship came dangerously close. For one crew member, the experience was life ...

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

The SS Alpena, built in 1942, is the oldest working freighter on the Great Lakes. The freighter, currently docked in Cleveland for repairs, has been operating since before the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Bill Pringle, of the Detroit Historical Society, joined Local 4 to discuss the Pilot House at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, where visitors can walk in the captain's steps on the Great Lakes freighter ...

The massive freighters that ply the Great Lakes are back at work following the early reopening of the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 season, and they're doing it all under the watchful eyes of webcams that ...