Annie Dennis was in her office at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit when an email alert popped up on her screen. News outlets were reporting that the Western Reserve, a freighter that sank in the middle of ...

WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. — In August of 1892, Captain Peter G. Minch was taking his family on a summer cruise en route to Two Harbors, Minnesota, on the Western Reserve. Captain Minch, a ...

THUNDER BAY – Nestled along the rocky shores of Lake Superior, the lighthouses of the Great Lakes stand as silent sentinels, guiding mariners through treacherous waters for more than a century.

In August 1892, the Western Reserve was sailing across Lake Superior when it got caught in a late summer storm. The 300-foot vessel was roughly 60 miles north of Whitefish Point when a powerful ...

Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. CORRECTS DATE This image provided by Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society shows the broken mast from the ...

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WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. – After 132 years, the wreck of a ship that sank in Lake Superior has been found. The wreck of the Western Reserve steamship, which sank on Aug. 30, 1892, was discovered about ...

CORRECTS DATE This image provided by Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society shows the broken mast from the Western Reserve, a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1892 off Michigan’s ...

It was a real deep mystery. Researchers have finally discovered the final resting spot of the historic Gilded Age ship Western Reserve — closing the book on a caper that has endured for over a ...

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