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

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

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

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

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

"A massive ship came from out of the blue." Those are the words of an American sailor who was on the Stena Immaculate oil ...

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

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

Most of the crew got into the ship's metal lifeboat, and the family boarded the wooden one. The metal boat capsized almost right away. Only two crew members − one of them Stewart − made it ...

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