The 300-foot freighter has become known for the tragic series of events that unfolded after it sank. The shipwreck, broken in two, was discovered by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society ...

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 Lake Michigan.

Shipwreck found in Lake Superior more than 130 years after boat vanished during family trip - The wreck resulted in the ...

Great Lakes shipping season will kick off four days earlier than expected in response to a request from the Great Lakes shipping industry.

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 ...

AP) — Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great ... the lakes. Built to break speed records, the 300-foot (91.4-meter) freighter dubbed ...

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 ...

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 ...