The Western Reserve, a 300-foot steel steamer, broke in two as it wrecked in 1892 about 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point ...

"Every shipwreck has its own story, but some are just that much more tragic." On August 30, 1892, shipping magnate Peter G. Minch set out with his family and 22 crewmen aboard his ship, the SS Western ...

Minch. The voyage to escape the heat ended in disaster along a stretch of Michigan now known as Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast that killed 27 and left only one survivor. Its resting place 600 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society has announced the discovery of a new wreck on Lake Superior: The SS Western Reserve. The 300-foot steel steamer was first ...

After 132 years, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society recently announced that it discovered the shipwreck around 60 ...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society made the ... The Great Lakes, which include Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, have seen numerous shipwrecks due ...

Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society By Simon J ... found itself in the middle of a gale in Lake Superior. Capt. Peter G. Minch, a millionaire shipping magnate traveling with his family ...

Every shipwreck has its own story, but some are just that much more tragic,” the executive director of the Great Lakes ...

A bell found amid the wreckage of the Western Reserve at the bottom of Lake Superior. (The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society via Storyful) Advertisement Divers recently plunged into the ...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society has announced the discovery of a new wreck on Lake Superior: The SS Western Reserve. The 300-foot steel steamer was first found late last summer about ...

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