The Iosco was a wooden freighter hauling iron ore and towing the schooner barge Olive Jeanette when a sudden, ferocious storm struck Lake Superior on September 2, 1905, driving both vessels into ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Editor's note: This story has been updated to include the latest information made available by the U.S. Coast Guard. The U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes escorted a freighter through Lake ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A Canadian freighter ...

Lower‑than‑average Great Lakes water levels are forcing freighters to watch loads even as cruise lines forecast record passenger growth.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the Soo Locks closed until March, Great Lakes freighters are quickly heading to port for winter maintenance at harbors from ...

In 1940, the freighter SS Arlington was towing a barge across Lake Superior when it encountered a powerful storm. As waves and wind intensified, the ship began taking on water and radioed its final ...

The U.S. Coast Guard based in Traverse City airlifted a person from a freighter in Lake Superior on Monday. See the rescue in the video below Video: Coast Guard crews rescue person suffering medical ...

These days, when someone mentions the Edmund Fitzgerald, our minds immediately flip to Gordon Lightfoot’s iconic ballad that tells the tale of the freighter’s terrible sinking in a Lake Superior storm ...

The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm. The mighty ship, ...

DULUTH, Minn.-With a hardy group of onlookers lining the ship canal not long after sunrise, the freighter Roger Blough left Duluth on Wednesday as the Twin Ports' first departure of the 2017 ...