The 2025 Great Lakes shipping season kicks off this week when the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and reopen early ...

The shipwreck, broken in two, was discovered by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society using sonar technology. A historic all-steel ship that broke records as it cruised the Great Lakes but ...

What started as a private manufacturing venture on the banks of the Saginaw ... Great Lakes – the Charles L. Hutchinson and the Richard M. Marshall – in 1952 and 1953, respectively. Both ships ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — 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 ...

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

In its day, the Western Reserve was an engineering marvel. At 318 feet long, it was one of the first ships on the Great Lakes made entirely of steel. It was built for speed—earning the nickname ...

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