After 132 years, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society recently announced that it discovered the shipwreck around 60 ...

After searching for two years, researchers discovered the shipwreck of the Western Reserve, an early all-steel ship that ...

In August 1892, the Western Reserve was sailing across Lake Superior when it got caught in a late summer storm. The 300-foot ...

A historic all-steel cargo ship that broke speed records as it sailed across the Great Lakes has been found more […] ...

The Great Lakes, which include Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, have seen numerous shipwrecks due to their harsh weather conditions. Around 200 ships have sunk ...

In 1892, a gale overtook the ship Western Reserve, causing it to sink within a matter of minutes with only one of the 28 ...

Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes.

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

The Western Reserve, a 300-foot steel steamer, broke in two as it wrecked in 1892 about 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point ...

Minch. The voyage to escape the heat ended in disaster along a stretch of Michigan now known as Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast that killed 27 and left only one survivor. Its resting place 600 ...

LAKE SUPERIOR, Mich. (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The remains of a shipwreck from over 130 years ago were found hundreds of feet beneath Lake Superior. The Western Reserve, one of the first all-steel ...

The only survivor was Wheelsman Harry W. Stewart of Algonac, Michigan. According to a report in the Chicago Tribune on Sept. 3, 1892, when Stewart reached shore, he walked 12 miles to the nearest life ...