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

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

Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail ...

The technologically advanced all-steel cargo ship Western Reserve, once dubbed the "inland greyhound," found broken in two at ...

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 Society found the wreckage off ...

A major search involving naval helicopters and police boats was underway on Monday for the passengers of a migrant boat that ...

He was cleaning the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it capsized under Japanese torpedo fire. Less than a year later, he ...