The S/S Courtney Burton of the Oglebay Norton fleet of Great Lakes bulk carriers is an impressive sight for those interested in paying her a visit. Like Times Beach, the freighter is best observed ...

This freighter lay undiscovered for 132 years until this past summer when a team with the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society discovered the wreckage 600 feet down off the coast of Michigan ...

Although the Western Reserve was found in Lake Superior, estimates suggest there are more than 1,700 ships resting just in ...

according to the American Great Lakes Ports Association. About 6,000 ships have wrecked on the Great Lakes, at least 1,500 of them in Michigan waters, according to the Michigan Department of ...

Around 200 ships have sunk in Whitefish Bay, the same place where the Western Reserve broke apart. The most notable in the ...

Illinois to become a chief engineer on a half-century-long career sailing the Great Lakes. The book recounts life on the open seas when Baxter sailed on the L.E. Block lake freighter that was ...

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 1940 off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

The Edmund Fitzgerald, a freighter that went down in a November 1975 storm that was immortalized in the Gordon Lightfoot song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," sank off Whitefish Point within 100 ...