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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The wreckage site of the 300-foot steel steamer ‘Western Reserve’ has been found, according to a Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum ...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society discovered the wreckage of “The Western Reserve” that sank 132 years ago in Lake ...

According to the GLSHS, near the end of August 1892, he decided to take family members on a cruise through Lake Huron and ...

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 ...

As the ship entered Lake Superior's Whitefish Bay between Michigan ... In July, explorers from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society pinpointed the Western Reserve off Michigan's Upper ...