The discovery confirms what the ship's lone survivor said happened. The cargo ship broke in two the night of Aug. 30, 1892..

A crew member tells CBS News "a massive ship came from out of the blue" and rammed a tanker apparently carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military.

Nearly 133 years after the Western Reserve steel steamer ship sank in Lake Superior, explorers at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society this week said they have finally located the underwater ...

The technologically advanced all-steel cargo ship Western Reserve, once dubbed the "inland greyhound," found broken in two at ...

Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes.

Twenty-seven people died as a result of the wreck, and what happened is only known because of its lone survivor.

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

A LIFEBOAT helped transfer an injured man from a cargo ship off the Isle of Wight. Solent Coastguard sent out Bembridge ...

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

Unfortunately, they were unable to attract the attention of the ship by shouting and they had no flares. By the next morning, the lifeboat had made it within one mile of the shoreline near the ...

The ship’s other captain ... Most of the crew got into the metal lifeboat, while the family boarded the wooden one. The metal one turned over almost right away, and only two crew members ...