The cargo schooner, which sank in 1893 and only was found last year, is especially notable because of its ties to Wisconsin ...
According to its listing on the Wisconsin Shipwrecks website ... Clow was taking the Muir from Bay City, Michigan, to South Chicago with a cargo of bulk salt on Sept. 30, 1893, when at 5 a.m ...
Muir, a schooner that sank a few miles off the shore of Algoma in Lake Michigan in 1893, is now listed on the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places. The shipwreck was discovered in 2023 by ...
The final resting place of what was once the "safest ship afloat" was discovered after 132 years. Only one man, a wheelsman ...
Twenty-seven people died as a result of the wreck, and what happened is only known because of its lone survivor.
Although the Western Reserve was found in Lake Superior, estimates suggest there are more than 1,700 ships resting just in Lake Michigan.
Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes.
After searching for two years, researchers discovered the shipwreck of the Western Reserve, an early all-steel ship that ...
MICHIGAN, USA — The year was 1892 ... and anytime," said Darryl. “Every shipwreck has its own story, but some are just that much more tragic," said Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society ...
Minch. The voyage to escape the heat ended in disaster along a stretch of Michigan now known as Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast that killed 27 and left only one survivor. Its resting place 600 ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society has announced the discovery of a new wreck on Lake ...
In 1892, a gale overtook the ship Western Reserve, causing it to sink within a matter of minutes with only one of the 28 ...