Modern day freighters are massive - the Edmund Fitzgerald stood more than 700 feet long and weighed over 13,000 tons. Today’s ships are designed off the back of generations of shipping on these inland ...

These days, when someone mentions the Edmund Fitzgerald, our minds immediately flip to Gordon Lightfoot’s iconic ballad that tells the tale of the freighter’s terrible sinking in a Lake Superior storm ...

The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975, was among Great Lakes disasters attributed to "the gales of November," as singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot later described them. November ...

In the 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing her crew of 29, many advances in weather and technology have made bulk carrier shipping safer. Improvements include more real ...

Large Lake Superior waves crash on the Keweenaw Peninsula near Copper Harbor Michigan. Short-period waves, sudden gales and freezing spray turn freshwater into a death trap on the Great Lakes—a ...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald turned heads when she was launched in Detroit in 1958. The ship was longer and could carry more taconite than any other Great Lakes freighter, and it boasted plush quarters ...

So long as bulk carrier freighters move goods through the Great Lakes — and through the severe storms that can pop up in November and other months — the risk of an Edmund Fitzgerald-type disaster is ...