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

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

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

The 300-foot "Western Reserve" sank in August 1892, killing 27 people after both lifeboats capsized. Harry W. Stewart, the ...

The technologically advanced all-steel cargo ship Western Reserve, once dubbed the "inland greyhound," found broken in two at a depth of 600 feet in Lake Superior.

Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society By Simon J ... found itself in the middle of a gale in Lake Superior. Capt. Peter G. Minch, a millionaire shipping magnate traveling with his family ...

The only survivor was Wheelsman Harry W. Stewart of Algonac, Michigan. According to a report in the Chicago Tribune on Sept.

As the ship entered Lake Superior’s Whitefish Bay between Michigan ... For almost 132 years the lake hid the wreckage. In July, explorers from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society ...

This image provided by Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society shows a deck rack on the bow of the Western Reserve cargo ship beneath Lake Superior, on July 30, 2024. (Great Lakes Shipwreck ...