After searching for two years, researchers discovered the shipwreck of the Western Reserve, an early all-steel ship that ...

Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes.

As the ship entered Lake Superior’s Whitefish Bay between Michigan and Canada on Aug. 30, a gale came up. With no cargo, the ship was floating high in the water. The storm battered it until it ...

MADISON, Wis. — 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 ...