Until 2020, it was possible to book a voyage on a cargo ship. Today, it's virtually impossible, despite being a greener, ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald, a freighter that went down in a November 1975 storm that was immortalized in the Gordon Lightfoot song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," sank off Whitefish Point within 100 ...

One of the massive 1,000-foot freighters? Or maybe a mid-size cargo-hauling workhorse? No and no. Arriving a day early to drop anchor and capture this year’s “first ship” award is actually ...

Twenty-seven people died as a result of the wreck, and what happened is only known because of its lone survivor.

It doesn’t get more authentic than sailing on an upscale cruise ship doubling as a freight vessel that delivers critical ...

Much is still unclear about this collision between an oil tanker and a container ship in the North Sea. We know it will ...

The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ships to traverse the lakes. Built to break speed records, the 300-foot (91-meter) freighter dubbed “the inland greyhound” by ...

The 318-foot steel freighter was a state-of-the-art ship at the time ... It was meant to break records, even carrying the largest coal cargo into Milwaukee during its time, Lynn said.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one ...