Fifty years ago, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing 29 crew members. Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad ...

Gordon Lightfoot turned a brief news item about a Great Lakes tragedy into one of the most haunting songs ever written — an ...

The loss was commemorated in folk-rocker Gordon Lightfoot ’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” which hit No. 2 on the ...

The Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot and the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald are inextricably linked in a way few ...

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship ...

Less than a year after the American cargo carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in the Great Lakes in November 1975, the late ...

The ship, commanded by renowned Great Lakes Captain Ernest McSorley, left from Superior, Wisconsin on November 9 carrying a load of iron ore to the steel mill on Zug Island, Michigan. But the next day ...

First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a 12-string acoustic. Then come the haunting lyrics.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, killing all 29 crew members aboard. Seven of the victims were from Northeast Ohio. The freighter was traveling ...

Chris Carlson was fishing on Grand Marais Harbor Sunday when he saw a large wave hit a group of people walking on a pier. One of them was swept into the water.

The haunting Gordon Lightfoot song that came out the year after the Fitzgerald sank is a way for the story of the ill-fated ship to live on.

"The Edmund Fitzgerald was a Great Lakes freighter ship, which sunk in a November storm on Lake Superior in 1975. None of her 29 crew members survived, and none of their remains were ever recovered. A ...