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Lake Superior is still spitting out the bones of ships who crossed her 120 years ago, find them on this U.P. beach.
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.
Then tragedy struck. As the ship entered Lake Superior's Whitefish Bay between Michigan and Canada on Aug. 30, a gale came up. With no cargo aboard, the ship was light and floating high in the water.
Shipwreck found in Lake Superior more than 130 years after boat vanished during family trip ... Around 200 ships have sunk in Whitefish Bay, the same place where the Western Reserve broke apart.
A Wisconsin man has died while scuba diving in Lake Superior at Isle Royale National Park, officials announced Friday. John Nousaine, 70, had been diving around 1 p.m. Thursday toward wreckage ...
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy, 68 swimmers are retracing the ship's final voyage with a ...
Historians are racing to locate Great Lakes shipwrecks before a seemingly unstoppable invasive mussel destroys them and erases part of the region's heritage.
This fall will mark 50 years since the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and a relay swim will be held to commemorate the ...
Shipwreck found in Lake Superior more than 130 years after boat vanished during family trip. ... Around 200 ships have sunk in Whitefish Bay, the same place where the Western Reserve broke apart.