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

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

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

Shipwreck found in Lake Superior more than 130 years after boat vanished during family trip - The wreck resulted in the deaths of 27 people ...

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

Western Reserve was considered one of the safest ships afloat. Two years later it met a tragic end, and its remains have ...

Every shipwreck has its own story, but some are just that much more tragic,” the executive director of the Great Lakes ...

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

but when they reached the area of Whitefish Point on Lake Superior, things took a turn. The crew decided to drop anchor and wait out the rough weather, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society ...

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 ...