Twenty-seven people died as a result of the wreck, and what happened is only known because of its lone survivor.

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

The wreckage of an all-steel ship that set sails over 100 years ago was discovered off the coast of Michigan’s Upper ...

The discovery confirms what the ship's lone survivor said happened. The cargo ship broke in two the night of Aug. 30, 1892..

The Edmund Fitzgerald, a freighter that went down in a November 1975 storm that was immortalized in the Gordon Lightfoot song ...

More than a century after it vanished beneath the waters of Lake Superior, a groundbreaking discovery has finally solved one ...

AP's reporting found many flag states still don't intervene. Panama, Palau and Tanzania each registered dozens of the ships reported as abandoned in 2024. The yearslong rise in abandonment cases ...

They announced the landmark find at the Wisconsin Underwater Archeological Association’s annual Ghost ... The ship broke in two. Just one crew member, watchman Dennis Hale, was found 40 hours ...

The Western Reserve ship has been located by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society in Lake Superior — the largest ...