In August 1892, the Western Reserve was sailing across Lake Superior when it got caught in a late summer storm. The 300-foot vessel was roughly 60 miles north of Whitefish Point when a powerful gale ...

Author Jeanne Carstensen details a deadly shipwreck she witnessed through accounts from survivors and rescuers alike. The ...

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

Days later, battered and broken, the ship founders on a mysterious ... PINNING A NAME and a story to an anonymous, five-centuries-old shipwreck found unexpectedly on a far-flung shore takes ...

Great lakes shipwreck museum In August 1892, owner Captain Peter G. Minch and his family embarked on a summer pleasure cruise aboard the vessel — which was also deemed the “safest ship in the ...

The USS Nevada served in World War I and World War II and sat off Bikini Atoll in July 1946 during atomic bomb tests, ...

The large ship measures about 115 feet long and 33 ... A photo shows a section of the 500-year-old wreck where the horizontal planks clearly look side by side. Some sections of planking are ...

(WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The remains of a shipwreck from over 130 years ago ... Michigan. Despite the ship's size, only one person survived the disaster. Over 132 years later, researchers were ...

Minch. He and several members of his family were on board for the ship’s final, fateful journey. Sketches of the SS Western Reserve by Robert McGreevy. (Courtesy Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical ...

The shipwreck, broken in two ... The ship’s other captain, Albert Myers, also had his 19-year-old son on board. The ship had smooth sailing up until Aug. 30, when it arrived at Lake Superior's ...