When she sank with all 29 souls aboard on Nov. 10, 1975, the big freighter’s story quickly became the Great Lake’s most well-known shipwreck. RELATED: Edmund Fitzgerald’s final hours ...

Her demise was shared around the world in Gordon Lightfoot’s song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” while the harrowing details of the ore carrier’s last journey became part of mariner ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 — 48 years ago. A 1995 dive to recover the ship's bell captured footage of the wreck 535 feet below Superior's surface.

But around the Great Lakes, none of his songs have surpassed the popularity of his haunting six-minute ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." The song, which in 1976 spent 21 weeks on the U ...

everybody wants to know about the Edmund Fitzgerald," said Ric Mixter. There aren't many people better suited for answers on the wreckage than Ric Mixter. He's published a 300-page book on the ...

Sunday marked the 49th anniversary of the day 29 mariners on the Edmund Fitzgerald freighter lost their lives in a storm on Lake Superior. Toledo has a special connection of the shipwreck as many ...

DULUTH — When news broke of Gordon Lightfoot's death Monday at age 84, Minnesotans reading his obituaries may have been surprised to discover that "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976 ...

Released the next summer, "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" made it to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was a staple of Lightfoot's live performances for decades after. "It is a very good ...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Paradise is livestreaming its annual Edmund Fitzgerald remembrance at 7 p.m. Friday, in memory of the Great Lakes freighter that sank 48 years ago during a ...

“Hundreds of beautiful songs, but the one (Gordon Lightfoot) is probably best known for is the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” said Joel Stone, Curator Emeritus at the Detroit Historical Society.

“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” his 1976 folk ballad, was unusual partly because, at more than six minutes long, it was about twice as long as most pop hits. It also retold a real-life ...