The Western Reserve, a 300-foot steel steamer, broke in two as it wrecked in 1892 about 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point ...
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources fisheries technician Lauren Dagen holding the spawning coaster trout recently ...
After 132 years, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society recently announced that it discovered the shipwreck around 60 ...
By the next morning, the lifeboat drifted within one mile of Lake Superior’s southeastern shoreline, but it overturned in the breakers, according to the museum. The Western Reserve’s wheelsman ...
Underwater video shows the two halves of the steamer sitting atop each other, which is unusual for a shipwreck. The sole ...
A strong late-season winter storm brought heavy snow, gale-force winds and blizzard conditions to the North Shore of Lake ...
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 ...
At about 7:30 a.m., historians say they were within a mile of shoreline west of the Deer Park Life-Saving Station on Lake Superior's southeast shoreline when the lifeboat overturned in the breakers.