No one was more surprised than Gordon Lightfoot when his ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" became one of the biggest hits of 1976, less than a year after the disaster it commemorates. The ...

Ari Daniel - Host, "There's More to That" Half a century ago, on an unseasonably warm fall day, the freighter S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald set off from the western edge of Lake Superior with a cargo full of ...

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On Nov. 10, 1975, during a calamitous storm, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank below the waves of Lake Superior. All 29 men aboard went down with the vessel. With no survivors and no eyewitnesses, there’s ...

News 8 is producing a series of stories that will be published in the days leading up to Nov. 10, the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It will culminate with a WOOD TV+ special ...

Captain Ernest McSorley and his crew were fighting for their lives in a battle against the "Witch of November" when his final words went out over the radio. “We are holding our own." Less than 15 ...

2:09 Songwriting a ‘refuge’ for late Canadian music icon Gordon Lightfoot It was a shipwreck so notorious, it inspired what many critics and listeners agree is one of the greatest songs of all time — ...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was, when it was launched in 1958, the largest ship on the Great Lakes. The 729-foot-long ore carrier was named for the president and chairman of the board of Northwestern ...

“Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?” —Gordon Lightfoot, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” On Friday morning, I opened TikTok and typed “Edmund ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald, owned by the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company, arrives at Milwaukee’s Jones Island Mooring Basin in July 1959 for the first time. The 729-foot, $8 million ore carrier was ...