As the ship entered Lake Superior’s Whitefish Bay between Michigan and Canada on Aug. 30, a gale came up. With no cargo, the ...
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For almost 132 years, the lake hid the wreckage. In July, explorers from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society ...
The technologically advanced all-steel cargo ship Western Reserve, once dubbed the "inland greyhound," found broken in two at ...
Every shipwreck has its own story, but some are just that much more tragic,” said Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society ...
Every shipwreck has its own story, but some are just that much more tragic,” the executive director of the Great Lakes ...
The wreck of the Western Reserve, a 318-foot steel freighter was recently found in Lake Superior's Whitefish Bay. It sank ...
It was a late summer evening when conditions on Lake Superior turned from bad to treacherous. The year was 1892, and the ship — a 300-foot steamer christened the “Western Reserve,” hailed as one of ...
The Western Reserve, a 300-foot steel steamer, was discovered about 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point in Lake Superior by ...
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 shipwreck of The Western Reserve, which disappeared in Lake Superior 132 years ago, has been found using advanced sonar ...
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