Built in 1953, the Badger was the last and largest – along with its sister ship the S.S. Spartan – coal-fired, steam engine ...

With the arrival of spring, the season for shipping on the Great Lakes typically begins.The event coincides with the opening ...

A historic all-steel cargo ship that broke speed records as it sailed across the Great Lakes has been found more […] ...

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

After 132 years, the final resting place of the 300-foot steel steamer Western Reserve has been discovered roughly 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point in Lake Superior. The Great Lakes Shipwreck ...

In my previous column I described the system of design for icebreaking steamers that was worked out in the 1880s by naval ...

The historic steamer had reportedly disappeared during a summer cruise in Lake Superior in 1892, resulting in the deaths of owner and millionaire shipping ... with the Great Lakes Shipwreck ...

The shipwreck, broken in two, was discovered by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society ... for the family of its millionaire owner and shipping magnate Peter G. Minch. The voyage to escape ...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society says the Western Reserve broke apart and sank in 600 feet of water during a fierce gale 132 years ago in August 1894 about 60 miles northwest of ...

Historically, March begins the Great Lakes shipping season where commodities like cement, wheat, lumber, coal, iron ore and other products are transported by commercial boats across the inland ...