MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald still sits at the bottom of Lake Superior, submerged in 535 feet of water, about 17 miles ...

The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald still hits close to home in Wisconsin. Half a century later, the legacy lives on through memorials, museum exhibits, ...

A historic all-steel cargo ship that broke speed records as it sailed across the Great Lakes has been found more than a century after it sank. The Western Reserve was one of the first of its kind to ...

When it was clear the Fitzgerald had disappeared, the question became: Who would brave the storm to look for the crew?

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, ...

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 ...

DULUTH, MINN — The water in Lake Superior sloshed back-and-forth like a bathtub between Minnesota and Michigan when a storm system caused a tidal-like phenomenon known as a seiche across the region ...