Based on the reverence the Titanic has in public consciousness, you would think that it was the worst shipwreck of all time.

A life ring and a piece of a lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald were sold at auction Friday for $150,000, a month after the 50th anniversary of the famous ship's sinking in Lake Superior with 29 men ...

The items were sold a month after the 50th anniversary of the famous ship’s sinking in Lake Superior with 29 men aboard.

Our oceans and seas have claimed countless vessels since the earliest days of seafaring. Most shipwrecks have been long-forgotten, perhaps never having received much notice to begin with, but other ...