South Bend History Museum marks Edmund Fitzgerald anniversary with Great Lakes shipwreck exhibit

Right now, you can visit The History Museum in South Bend to check out a new exhibit called “ Freshwater Fury: Great Lakes ...
WOODTV.com

Who was Edmund Fitzgerald, the reluctant namesake of the Great Lakes’ famous ship?

Edmund Fitzgerald was a businessman in the Wisconsin area: the president of Northwestern Mutual in Milwaukee, which owned the ...
Duluth News Tribune

How Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum remembers Edmund Fitzgerald

The Whitefish Point museum holds the ship's bell, and hosts an annual ceremony at which family members gather to remember the ...
WTOL

From fur traders to freighters: How Great Lakes storms shaped shipwreck history

TOLEDO, Ohio — 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 ...

Legendary gales of November have factored in many Great Lakes shipwrecks

Also known as the "witches" of November, they occur between mid-October and mid-December, when storm tracks collide over the Great Lakes, ...

'The legend lives on': Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald still resonates 50 years later

November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of all the estimated 6,500 ships that have gone down in the Great Lakes ...

Without the song, 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' may have been largely forgotten

Without Gordon Lightfoot’s song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 other ships that went down in the Great Lakes before it ...