The Bradley was built in 1927 by the American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio. It was owned by the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Co. and built specifically to transfer limestone from a massive ...

“The Spies at Jimmy’s Place” historically involves Lindbergh kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann and a time when American Nazis marched through Jewish neighborhoods. Jimmy becomes involved with a young woman ...

Fifty years to the date after one particular great freighter plunged to the bottom of Lake Superior, holding tight to the ...

The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, immortalized by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, wrecked in Lake Superior 50 years ...

Hurricane-force winds were whipping up 40-foot waves as part of the early winter storm on Nov. 11-12 that cut a wide swath of ...

Milwaukee Public Library's Central Library is home to a collection of artifacts and files from a plethora of ships, including ...

Pam Johnson said her father was filling in for the Fitzgerald's regular cook on what was scheduled to be the final voyage of ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the largest and most famous of the estimated ...

The ship sank during a violent Lake Superior storm, killing all 29 men on board. The wreck was the biggest maritime investigation in Great Lakes history, but a half-century later, the cause remains a ...

Watch, read and reflect as we revisit the storm, the ship, and the souls aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald through exclusive ...

Fifty years ago, one of the largest freighters ever to set sail in the Great Lakes region went down in a violent storm.

The 50th anniversary of the shipwreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald reminds us of how important the Great Lakes are as a conduit ...