“Good evening, everyone,” a voice called out over the PA. Heads turned to a makeshift stage in the back, where a woman stood before a microphone in front of a projection screen showing an old photo of a ship, one that anyone in the room would have recognized at a glance. “Who’s ready to talk about the Edmund Fitzgerald ?”

It's one of the most infamous ship sinkings in American history, and still shrouded in mystery decades after a chart-topping song was written about it. Here's what we know about the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on November 10th 1975, but the legacy of the ship continues to this day half a century later.

Retelling shipwreck stories help keep the memories of their victims alive. How the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, SS Carl D. Bradley and Western Reserve sank.

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

The Great Lakes’ most famous shipwreck – and inspiration for Gordon Lightfoot’s chilling ballad – still resonates: a tale of courage, loss and the haunting pull of the inland seas

The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald was considered the largest and fastest Great Lakes ship. It set multiple records for the largest season-hauls. Built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Mich., the ship launched in 1958.

The gales of November bent the old box elder tree in our backyard. Little Bay de Noc churned and splashed not far from our house. It is 1975 and Escanaba’s north shore stockpiles tons of iron ore pellets.

A nail-biting drama played out just off the tip of Michigan’s northernmost peninsula. It's almost too amazing to believe.