The loss of the Fitzgerald left people stunned. The tragedy spurred new safety measures and change among shipping companies, ...

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Early speculation is that it may be the Evelyn M. Thompson, a two-masted fishing vessel built in Gloucester and home-ported ...

You’ve heard about the Unsinkable Molly Brown, the brassy, nouveau riche millionaire mine owner’s wife who made it safely off ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

It was a calm and clear afternoon when the Edmund Fitzgerald left port in Superior, Wisconsin, on November 9, 1975. The enormous ship carried more than 26,000 tons of iron ore in the form of taconite ...

The Gales of November” takes a look back at the SS Edmund Fitzgerald nearly 50 years after its sinking. The 729-foot Great ...

More than 4000 Japanese soldiers perished when Chuuk Lagoon, known as "Truk" at the time, was bombarded by US forces at the ...

It has been a half-century since the ship sank on Lake Superior, and a pop single memorialized its fate. Now museums are ...

The researchers uncovered three distinct submerged cargo assemblages in the Dor Lagoon—also known as Tantura Lagoon—on Israel ...

West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashed 59 years ago near Mount Hood. Our writer hiked to the plane's crash site to see what ...

The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm.