The Great Lakes are known more commonly "Lake Superior" and for its capability to swallow ships without warning. 50 years later and the question still remains.

S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, the return of a set of important belongings to the Lakota community and a baseball field resurrected ...

Did a “bad luck omen” cause this ship to sink in Lake Superior exactly 115 years ago in 1909? Some “old time sailors” may have thought so. According to the The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society ...

A life ring from the Edmund Fitzgerald, the famous Great Lakes freighter that was shipwrecked 50 years ago, will be auctioned ...

The second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes, an American-built, Canadian-owned sloop that sank in Lake Ontario more than 200 years ago, has been found, a team of underwater explorers said ...

The Great Lakes have claimed thousands of lives and ships. The exact total will never be known, but historians estimate that 25–30,000 people have drowned on around 6,000 vessels since the 17th ...

According to Detroit auction house DuMouchelles's website, a live auction is set for Friday, Dec. 19, at 10 a.m. CST (11 a.m.

Captain Benjamin Trudell was the first captain at the Grand Marais Lifesaving station. One of Captain Trudell's most notable rescues was that of the steamer South Shore on the morning of November 23, ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Underwater explorers say they've found the 144-year-old Lake Ontario shipwreck of a rare sailing vessel that typically wasn't used on the Great Lakes. Western New York-based ...

The Great Lakes cover over 94,000 square miles and hold about one-fifth of the world's fresh water, according to the Great Lakes Commission. For people who live surrounded by them, the lakes are a ...