In August 1892, the Western Reserve was sailing across Lake Superior when it got caught in a late summer storm. The 300-foot ...
After searching for two years, researchers discovered the shipwreck of the Western Reserve, an early all-steel ship that ...
"Every shipwreck has its own story, but some are just that much more tragic." On August 30, 1892, shipping magnate Peter G.
In 1892, a gale overtook the ship Western Reserve, causing it to sink within a matter of minutes with only one of the 28 ...
The only survivor was Wheelsman Harry W. Stewart of Algonac, Michigan. According to a report in the Chicago Tribune on Sept.
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society discovered the wreckage of “The Western Reserve” that sank 132 years ago in Lake ...
The Western Reserve, a 300-foot steel steamer, broke in two as it wrecked in 1892 about 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point ...
The wreckage site of the 300-foot steel steamer ‘Western Reserve’ has been found, according to a Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum ...
Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes.
Twenty-seven people died as a result of the wreck, and what happened is only known because of its lone survivor.
According to the GLSHS, near the end of August 1892, he decided to take family members on a cruise through Lake Huron and ...
Every shipwreck has its own story, but some are just that much more tragic,” the executive director of the Great Lakes ...