The winter maintenance period lasts into March and allows crews from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform needed ...

A timelapse video posted to social media shows a Great Lakes freighter make its final transit of the season through the. In ...

The M/V Herbert C. Jackson made her final trip through the Soo Locks for the 2025/2026 shipping season January 13.

If you think freighter food is just cafeteria slop, think again. Sissy Payment is the cook aboard one of the lake’s thousand ...

When the large cargo vessels go in and out of the St. Lawrence River, they come along the south edge of the Quinte region in ...

The Benjamin Noble was a Great Lakes freighter that vanished on Lake Superior in the late 19th century. Despite searches and later discoveries, the exact circumstances of its disappearance remain ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Few ships in Great Lakes history are as legendary as the Edmund Fitzgerald, especially across Northern Ohio, which was home to nearly half the 29 seamen who went down with the lake ...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald turned heads when she was launched in Detroit in 1958. The ship was longer and could carry more taconite than any other Great Lakes freighter, and it boasted plush quarters ...

The Great Lakes have a rich history of ghost stories and maritime lore. Lake Superior's "Shipwreck Coast" is known for numerous shipwrecks and ghost ship sightings. The SS Bannockburn, a vanished ...

People are gathering at ceremonies around the Great Lakes this weekend to honor the memories of the 29 crew members who died a half-century ago on Nov. 10, 1975, when the Edmund Fitzgerald — the ...