The wreckage site of the 300-foot steel steamer ‘Western Reserve’ has been found, according to a Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum ...
Twenty-seven people died as a result of the wreck, and what happened is only known because of its lone survivor.
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, ...
Western Reserve was considered one of the safest ships afloat. Two years later it met a tragic end, and its remains have ...
More than a century after it vanished beneath the waters of Lake Superior, a groundbreaking discovery has finally solved one ...