In the late 1800s, a Great Lakes ship captain had more to worry about than icy water and temperamental gales. There were pirates on the lakes, thanks to a lack of law enforcement on the water. The ...

The SS Alpena, the oldest working freighter on Michigan's Great Lakes, is back on course for another shipping season. As of 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 28, the ship was en route from Cleveland, Ohio, and was on ...

A ship built 16 years before the ill-fated SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in 1975, still navigates the waters of the Great Lakes transporting cargo. The SS Alpena, launched in 1942 under the name SS ...

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 ...

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 ...