Dive into Great Lakes shipwrecks with Manistee County Library staff reading list — from the Edmund Fitzgerald to 1913’s white hurricane.

ALPENA, MI - The year 1854 was not the deadliest for Great Lakes shipping – that sad title belongs to 1913 – but it was the costliest with 384 disasters and $2.1 million in losses. Adjusted for ...

Beware of the "gales of November" on the Great Lakes this month, as singer Gordon Lightfoot warned, because this month has been particularly deadly for sailors on the lakes for hundreds of years. Over ...

In the 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing her crew of 29, many advances in weather and technology have made bulk carrier shipping safer. Improvements include more real ...