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Also known as the "Mighty Fitz", this Great Lakes freighter sank during a gale near Whitefish Point. No distress signal was broadcast and all 29 crew members died.

The loss of a coal freighter during a storm on Lake Superior is immortalized in a mournful song by Gordon Lightfoot.

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Michigan's Upper Peninsula preserves artifacts from more than 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks, including the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Most pop-rock records are hit or miss. But Jimi Hendrix, The Police and Gordon Lightfoot, respectively, have made three that, quite simply, are perfect.

Three storms - all destructive, and all in November, lay waste to their hosts. The Ganges floods, Hermann Mellville stirs the Pacific, and Sherman burns Atlanta!

A searing portrait of the destruction of a small Spanish town is kept alive by a painting by Picasso.

The term "ballad" has been come a misnomer in modern times representing slow, dramatic rock songs instead of actual stories. Read on for the truth behind the ballad.

The HMS Bounty, an obscure armed merchant ship from which the crew mutinied is immortalized on film.

On May 29th, 1914, the Empress of Ireland departed from Quebec Harbor and collided with the Norwegian collier Storstad a few hours later on the St. Lawrence River.

Loaded with Christmas trees for the holiday season in Chicago, the three-masted schooner Rouse Simmons sunk near Two Rivers, Wisconsin. The crew of 17 lost their lives.