The Wyoming was a schooner built in 1909, and it gained a bit of fame for being the largest wooden ship ever built. Believe it or not, there's an upper size limit for wooden vessels, and 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 ...

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

A 5th-century wooden ship, constructed using traditional techniques and coconut coir stitching, was launched into the Mandovi River in Goa. Modeled after a painting from the Ajanta caves ...

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A storm has dredged up the past in Australia, revealing a historic shipwreck buried on a New South Wales beach. The wreck — located in the town of Ballina, about 450 miles north of Sydney — became ...

“It’s astounding.” The Western Reserve, a fast ship personally captained by a leading industry magnate, was revolutionary at a time when wooden steamships were still the dominant freighters ...

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

Touted as a technological wonder, Western Reserve was made from the same steel as the Titanic. Unfortunately, it met a similar fate.

The discovery confirms what the ship's lone survivor said happened. The cargo ship broke in two the night of Aug. 30, 1892..