With no cargo, the ship was floating high in the water. The storm battered it until it cracked in half. Twenty-seven people perished, including the Minch family. The only survivor was wheelsman Harry ...

The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ships to traverse the lakes ... “Knowing how the 300-foot Western Reserve was caught in a storm this far from shore made a uneasy ...

CORRECTS DATE This image provided by Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society shows the broken mast from the Western Reserve, a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1892 off Michigan’s ...

Explorers Discover Wreckage of Cargo Ship That Sank in Lake Superior Storm More Than 130 Years Ago MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship ...