The Western Reserve was en route to Two Harbors when it was lost during an August storm, leaving only one survivor.

DULUTH ‐ The Western Reserve, a mammoth and nearly new steam freighter, was en route to Two Harbors in August 1892 when it split in half during a storm and quickly sank to the depths of Lake Superior, ...

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

After searching for two years, researchers discovered the shipwreck of the Western Reserve, an early all-steel ship that ...

Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes. The society ...

As the ship entered Lake Superior’s Whitefish Bay between Michigan ... the society’s research vessel. Heavy ship traffic that day forced them to alter their course, though, and search an ...