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

No, the lake didn't suddenly shrink, nor did the city beyond the horizon teleport closer. The illusion is called a "superior mirage" — a phenomenon where shifting temperatures over the water ...

The Western Preserve was split in two and the remains were found at a depth of about 600 feet in Lake Superior, experts said. Photo by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society In 1892 ...

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 ...

WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. (WJRT) - Researchers announced they discovered remains of the 300-foot steel steamship Western Reserve in the middle of Lake Superior. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical ...

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 ...

The Western Reserve, an all-steel freighter that sank in 1892, has been found in Lake Superior. The 300-foot freighter has become known for the tragic series of events that unfolded after it sank.

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) has discovered the final resting spot for the "Western Reserve," 132 years after the ship sank in Lake Superior, killing 27 people. According ...