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Historic Century-Old Shipwreck Discovered 600 Feet Beneath the Surface of Lake SuperiorThe 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.
The ship wasn’t seen again until diligent explorers with the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society found the wreckage off ...
Although the Western Reserve was found in Lake Superior, estimates suggest there are more than 1,700 ships resting just in Lake Michigan.
The technologically advanced all-steel cargo ship Western Reserve, once dubbed the "inland greyhound," found broken in two at ...
Explorers have discovered the wreckage of a cargo ship which capsized in Lake Superior more than 130 years ago. The Marine ...
He was cleaning the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it capsized under Japanese torpedo fire. Less than a year later, he ...
The Edmund Fitzgerald, a freighter that went down in a November 1975 storm that was immortalized in the Gordon Lightfoot song ...
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