CLEVELAND, Ohio – Annie Dennis was in her office at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit when an email alert popped up on her screen.

Unfortunately, her career was cut tragically short when, in 1892, she was lost in a Lake Superior gale with only one survivor. In late August of 1892, SS Western Reserve set sail from Cleveland ...

Levien On Aug. 30, 1892, the Western Reserve, a state-of-the-art ship en route to Minnesota, found itself in the middle of a gale in Lake Superior. Capt. Peter G. Minch, a millionaire shipping ...

The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel ... a mile of shoreline west of the Deer Park Life-Saving Station on Lake Superior's southeast shoreline when the lifeboat overturned in the ...

In August 1892, the Western Reserve was sailing across Lake Superior when it got caught in a late summer storm. The 300-foot vessel was roughly 60 miles north of Whitefish Point when a powerful ...

A bell found amid the wreckage of the Western Reserve at the bottom of Lake Superior. (The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society via Storyful) Advertisement Divers recently plunged into the ...

Three shipwrecks submerged for 130 years or more were discovered in the Great Lakes in a short span last year. The Western Reserve was particularly deadly. Thousands of undiscovered shipwrecks are ...

Only one of the 27 people onboard the steel ship 'Western Reserve' survived when it vanished 132 years ago on Lake Superior Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024. Her work has ...