Great Lakes shipping season will open Friday when the Poe Lock in Michigan opens. Ships will soon be on the move to and from ...

With the arrival of spring, the season for shipping on the Great Lakes typically begins.The event coincides with the opening ...

The ship had smooth sailing up until Aug. 30 ... The discovery of the Western Reserve came after a two-year search by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society. Researchers first picked up the ...

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

Researchers have discovered the wreck of a historic all-steel ship that sank 132 years ago in Lake Superior in North America. The Western Reserve was found 600 feet deep off Michigan's Upper Peninsula ...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society says the Western Reserve broke apart and sank in 600 feet of water during a ...

Although the Western Reserve was found in Lake Superior, estimates suggest there are more than 1,700 ships resting just in Lake Michigan.

The ship wasn’t seen again until diligent explorers with the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical ... Stewart recounted sailing directly into a storm about 60 miles north of Whitefish Point, and ...

The ship had smooth sailing up until Aug. 30 ... The discovery of the Western Reserve came after a two-year search by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society. Researchers first picked ...

Though some individual researchers place the number much higher, the official estimate is that slightly more than 6,000 ships lie on the bottom of the Great Lakes. Roughly half of them fell ...