Michigan has eight ports of call for the upcoming season: Six cruise lines operating nine ships will visit those ports next ...

The arrival of American Cruise Lines coincides with a record-breaking forecast for the 2026 Great Lakes cruising season.

It's been 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank among huge waves on Lake Superior, and its legend is just as gripping as ...

The 9-Day Lake Michigan & Upper Peninsula cruises sail round-trip from Milwaukee, Wis., exploring Lake Michigan and the U.P. The 2026 schedule offers cruises on June 24, July 1, Aug. 1 and Aug. 8.

From hand-built canoes to massive freighters, violent storms have tested ships for centuries and led to tragedies that ...

With the weather forecasting capabilities of today, the captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald may not have even embarked from port.

Milwaukee Public Library's Central Library is home to a collection of artifacts and files from a plethora of ships, including ...

Edmund Fitzgerald was a businessman in the Wisconsin area: the president of Northwestern Mutual in Milwaukee, which owned the ...

Before it met its demise 50 years ago, the ore freighter commissioned by Northwestern Mutual was the rock star of Great Lakes ...

Cleveland-owned and crewed by Great Lakes men, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a November storm in 1975, but its lessons ...