At the Algonac City Council’s March 4 meeting, council members voted to approve a proposal for appraisal of 1027 through 1099 ...

After the wreckage of the Western Reserve was found 132 later, the family of the lone survivor is sharing their story.

After 132 years shrouded in mystery, the wreckage of the Western Reserve, a steamer that sank in 1892, was discovered in the depths of Lake Superior. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society ...

The final resting place of what was once the "safest ship afloat" was discovered after 132 years. Only one man, a wheelsman ...

Using a remotely operated vehicle, teams were able to find the wreck of the Western Reserve steamship, which sank on Aug. 30, ...

The Algonac City County approved a special event permit for its 2025 Music in the Park concerts, as well as two proposals for ...

Around 200 ships have sunk in Whitefish Bay, the same place where the Western Reserve broke apart. The most notable in the ...

Every shipwreck has its own story, but some are just that much more tragic,” the executive director of the Great Lakes ...

The Western Reserve, a 300-foot steel steamer, broke in two as it wrecked in 1892 about 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point ...

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 ...

After 132 years lost to the depths of Lake Superior, the Western Reserve - and the Gilded Age magnate who vanished with it - ...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society located the 1892 wreck of the steel steamship Western Reserve in Lake Superior.