The British ocean liner was torpedoed by the Germans during World War I, killing over one thousand people and changing the ...

In September 1914, a single German U-boat ventured into the North Sea. Lieutenant Otto Weddigen’s U-9 slipped past patrols ...

Discover the story of the RMS Lusitania, torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, off the coast of Ireland. The tragedy ...

Republican senators sunk a war powers resolution Thursday that would have blocked President Trump’s administration from ...

One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former ...

Thousands of vessels — 6,000 or more — lie at the bottom of the Great Lakes. Several hundred could lie beneath the waves in the part of Lake Michigan that falls under Illinois’ ...

Trump administration officials told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that the U.S. does not have legal justification to support ...

A massive freighter carrying thousands of tons of iron ore disappeared in Lake Superior, setting shipping on a new course ...

Modern technology provides the ability to learn definitively what sank the Edmund Fitzgerald — if the restrictions over diving her remains are lifted.

A German U-boat torpedoed HMS Bayano off the coast of Galloway on March 11, 1915, claiming the lives of 200 people.

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

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