To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, Avon Lake resident and musician Jerry Popiel has released a special music video tribute for his officially licensed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years ago on Nov. 10, 1975, massive freighter the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, amid 50-foot waves and ...

Without Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald might have faded into history alongside thousands of other Great Lakes wrecks. He was inspired to write the song after reading the first ...

A standing-room only crowd gathers at the Mariners' Church of Detroit on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025, to commemorate the SS Edmund Fitzgerald the 29 crew who perished in the maritime disaster on Nov. 10, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of people gathered at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point on a windswept section of Lake Superior on ...

Fifty years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared beneath the waves of Lake Superior - and a legend was born. The iron ore freighter, one of the largest and most well-known ships on the Great Lakes, ...

The gales of November are upon us. On this day, 50 years ago, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior during a storm. All 29 crew members drowned. The sinking of the Fitzgerald remains one of ...

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