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 ...

January, it's not long before the Great Lakes' largest ships dock for the season. Here's where to find them until March.

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 ...