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Isle Royale National Park, a remote island in northwestern Lake Superior, will reopen for the season April 16, 2025. Here's ...
Isle Royale National Park, a remote island in northwestern Lake Superior, will reopen for the season April 16, 2025. Here's ...
Reports began emerging earlier this week that the ferry is lacking a crew because of recent federal buyouts. A National Park Service office denies it.
Courtesy of Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum An all-steel ship that vanished in the middle of Lake Superior amid a violent storm 132 years ago has been discovered, according to researchers.
News outlets were reporting that the Western Reserve, a freighter that sank in the middle of Lake Superior in 1892, had been found.
Levien On Aug. 30, 1892, the Western Reserve, a state-of-the-art ship en route to Minnesota, found itself in the middle of a gale in Lake Superior. Capt. Peter G. Minch, a millionaire shipping ...
It was a late summer evening when conditions on Lake Superior turned from bad to treacherous ... finds itself supported by a large wave in the middle, with its heavy bow and stern lifted into ...
But more than 130 years after its sinking, the Western Reserve all-steel cargo ship has been found under the surface of Lake Superior. The ship, all 300 feet built to break speed records, ...
While Lake Michigan has the most shipwrecks, and Lake Erie has the highest density, Lake Superior has, perhaps, the most famous. There are nearly 600 vessels scattered across the bottom of Lake ...