DULUTH — The WesternReserve, 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, leaving behind ... .
After searching for two years, researchers discovered the shipwreck of the Western Reserve, an early all-steel ship that broke apart in a gale in 1892 with a sole survivor ... .
The year was 1892, and the ship - a 300-foot steamer christened the Western Reserve, hailed as one of the speediest and most advanced cargo vessels of its era - found itself in a squall. About 9 p.m., the unthinkable happened ... “Who knows?” ... .
A 300-foot steel steamship that vanished 132 years ago on Lake Superior has been found, a shipwreck museum group announced Monday ... The ship sank during a storm on Aug. 30, 1892. Twenty-seven people died in the wreck and only one person survived ... Harry W.