The Gales of November” takes a look back at the SS Edmund Fitzgerald nearly 50 years after its sinking. The 729-foot Great Lakes freighter sank in Lake Superior during a strong storm, killing all 29 ...

The dangerous bodies of water might not be the ones you expect. From the English Channel to the Great Lakes, these are six of the most dangerous bodies of water with tens of thousands of shipwrecks ...

The steamer Alpena on Lake Michigan, July 29, 2023. Alpena was sidelined for six months at the beginning of the 2025 season ...

The JC Ames was one of the most powerful tugboats of its time. The step-grandson of a famous Great Lakes shipwreck finder recently made his own historic discovery in Wisconsin—the long-lost remains of ...

Researchers discovered a 19th century “ghost ship” in Lake Michigan. The missing clue to the wreck’s location was hiding in ...

HOUGHTON — Members of the Great Lakes Smart Ships Coalition are conducting follow-up mapping and archaeological exploration in Lake Superior this week, aiming to find the wreckage of a plane that ...

DULUTH — The Trump administration’s new trade rules aimed at penalizing operators of Chinese-built ships and boosting domestic shipbuilding appear to have spared the Great Lakes shipping industry from ...

Contributor Jackie Sheckler Finch sails on Victory II, one of the growing number of Great Lakes Cruises wooing travelers. John Waggoner felt too young to retire. So, when he saw that two of the ships ...