ALPENA, MI – Advanced navigational equipment didn’t prevent this ocean-going freighter from colliding with another ship and sinking into Lake Huron in 1959. Liberian-registered Monrovia sank on June ...

Great Lakes groups, like the Lake Carriers Association, have spent the better part of two decades advocating for funding a new icebreaking ship. The advocates say a new Coast Guard vessel, which could ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Not since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down 50 years ago today has a giant freighter been lost on the Great Lakes, but prior to then, a number of big ships met their demise, often in ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — When the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald was immortalized, so too was the ship’s namesake. Edmund Fitzgerald was a businessman in the Wisconsin area: the president of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the Soo Locks closed until March, Great Lakes freighters are quickly heading to port for winter maintenance at harbors from ...

Feb 16, 2026 Feb 16, 2026 Updated Feb 16, 2026 SANILAC COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - Undersea Research Associates has uncovered the wreck of the James Carruthers, a large steel freighter lost on Lake Huron ...

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 ...