O n a summer night in 1892, the SS Western Reserve set out for a leisurely cruise through the Great Lakes. But disaster struck midway through the voyage and the ship, considered one of the safest ...

SS Western Reserve was laid down at the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1890. One of the first ever lake propeller-driven lake freighters made entirely of steel plate, she ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society has announced the discovery of a new wreck on Lake Superior: The SS Western Reserve. The 300-foot steel steamer was ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society has announced the discovery of a new wreck on Lake Superior: The SS Western Reserve. The 300-foot steel steamer was ...

The Western Reserve, a 300-foot steel steamer, broke in two as it wrecked in 1892 about 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point in Lake Superior. When the wreckage was found, ...

It was a late summer evening when conditions on Lake Superior turned from bad to treacherous. The year was 1892, and the ship — a 300-foot steamer christened the Western Reserve, hailed as one ...

Around 200 ships have sunk in Whitefish Bay, the same place where the Western Reserve broke apart. The most notable in the area happened in 1975 when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald , an American ...