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 ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most famous shipwrecks in Great Lakes history, but it's just one of hundreds of vessels lost to these waters. For researchers, ...

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

The Big Blow. The White Hurricane. Freshwater Fury. The Great Lakes storm that spawned all of those nicknames happened from Nov. 7-10, 1913. After it was over, more than a dozen ships and all their ...

While the 20th century brought humanity some of its most significant innovations across numerous fields, such as our most impactful modern invention, the internet, it was also marked by one of the ...

Between 1917 and 1968, the freighter Valley Camp carried more than 16 million tons of cargo, mostly coal, during its sailing days traveling from Lake Superior to Lake Erie. But all that cargo is ...

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