Today, 17 May 2025, marks the 56th anniversary of the Longhope Lifeboat disaster, a tragedy in which eight brave crew members ...

The technologically advanced all-steel cargo ship Western Reserve, once dubbed the "inland greyhound," found broken in two at ...

A crew member tells CBS News "a massive ship came from out of the blue" and rammed a tanker apparently carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military.

Touted as a technological wonder, Western Reserve was made from the same steel as the Titanic. Unfortunately, it met a similar fate.

Underwater video shows the two halves of the steamer sitting atop each other, which is unusual for a shipwreck. The sole ...

The Western Reserve, a 300-foot steel steamer, broke in two as it wrecked in 1892 about 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point ...

Every shipwreck has its own story, but some are just that much more tragic,” the executive director of the Great Lakes ...