Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the sinking, Bacon’s book promises to be the most comprehensive account yet of ...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, once the largest ship on the Great Lakes, sank during a Lake Superior storm on Nov. 10, 1975, killing all 29 crew on board.

NASHOTAH, Wis.(AP) — 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 ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Monday is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, marking a half-century of fascination with one of the most infamous nautical ...

DETROIT (AP) — A life ring and a piece of a lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald were sold at auction Friday for $150,000, a month after the 50th anniversary of the famous ship’s sinking in Lake ...

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was released in 1976, less than a year after the ship sank in Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot’s song peaked at number two on the Billboard chart that same year.

According to the description on Barnes & Noble’s website, Bacon’s narrative is built on “more than 100 interviews with the families, friends, and former crewmates of those lost.” The author “draws on ...