According to the GLSHS, near the end of August 1892, he decided to take family members on a cruise through Lake Huron and ...

Only one of the 27 people onboard the steel ship 'Western Reserve' survived when it vanished 132 years ago on Lake Superior ...

The only survivor was Wheelsman Harry W. Stewart of Algonac, Michigan. According to a report in the Chicago Tribune on Sept. 3, 1892, when Stewart reached shore, he walked 12 miles to the nearest life ...

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, ...

Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail ...