The SS Alpena had been docked in Cleveland, Ohio, for months while undergoing repairs. It was steaming north on Aug. 28.

The 1913 storm raged for over four days and sank multiple ships and claimed the lives of over 250 sailors, earning the nickname “The White Hurricane,” as reported by the Detroit Free Press. November 9 ...

In November 1913, a massive winter storm swept through the Great Lakes. Nicknamed the “White Hurricane,” the blizzard caused ...

Watch, read and reflect as we revisit the storm, the ship, and the souls aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald through exclusive ...

Great Lakes freighters and their crews don’t get the day off for holidays. “When sailing the (Great) Lakes, our mariners work every day to keep commerce flowing to the industrial and manufacturing ...

Reporter Jay Gabler taps into the enduring fascination with the Lake Superior tragedy in ‘Edmund Fitzgerald: 50 Years Below.’ ...

The James Carruthers, like the Edmund Fitzgerald — which is the most famous Great Lakes shipwreck — was a massive freighter, but the Carruthers sank decades earlier, during what is now known as the ...

Bill Pringle, of the Detroit Historical Society, joined Local 4 to discuss the Pilot House at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, where visitors can walk in the captain's steps on the Great Lakes freighter ...

ABOARD THE WOLVERINE (AP) -- Gliding imperceptibly across the horizon, the gigantic Great Lakes freighters are dark, silent, massive and imposing. Yet everyone from ship captain down to deckhand will ...

Andrew Pepler — the great-great-great grandson of James Carruthers, the shipping executive after whom a sunken freighter was named — said the news that the missing ship was finally found overwhelmed ...

Northwest Indiana steel mills rely on Great Lakes freighters to bring the iron ore that's burned in blast furnaces to make iron. The Port of Indiana Burns Harbor on Lake Michigan and Port of Chicago ...

The Canadian pipeline company Enbridge Energy has been eager to show news media its new Enbridge Straits Maritime Operations Center in Mackinaw City. Its purpose is to try to prevent another anchor ...