Before it met its demise 50 years ago, the ore freighter commissioned by Northwestern Mutual was the rock star of Great Lakes ...

But long before that tragedy, talk of the Mighty Fitz had centered around a ship that was known as an engineering marvel. She ...

A massive freighter carrying thousands of tons of iron ore disappeared in Lake Superior, setting shipping on a new course ...

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

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship ...

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

November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of all the estimated ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior Nov. 10, 1975, and killed all 29 men aboard. It's a modern maritime tragedy that ...

Only a few expeditions have made the journey down to the wreck, which is now designated a protected grave site. That leaves ...

Shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes totaled 4.3 million tons in November, a decrease of 4.7 percent from 2023. Shipments were below the month’s 5-year average by 3.5 percent. Year-to-date the ...

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — The harsh winter is blamed for a drop in iron ore shipments on the Great Lakes. Ore shipments through the end of June are down 17 percent from a year ago. The winter produced ...

Iron ore shipments on the Great Lakes totaled 3.7 million tons in April, a decrease of 18.7% compared to 2024. Shipments were 19.1% below the month’s five-year average. Year-to-date, the iron ore ...