Last year, maritime archaeologists revisited the "Northerner" in Lake Michigan and captured hundreds of still images, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Winter storms on the Great Lakes have a habit of briefly giving things back — from exposed reefs and forgotten shorelines to ...

The J.C. Ames was a powerful towing tug built in Manitowoc in 1881. It had a 41-year career. Now, it's the first shipwreck ...

PRESQUE ISLE, MI - After 175 years, this wooden schooner is intact from stem to stern. Resting 135 feet underwater, the Northwestern looms out of the depths of Lake Huron looking almost as if it’s ...

WHITEFISH POINT — The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is closing out what appears to be a record-breaking season. The museum, located in northwest Chippewa County, opened for the season May 1 and will ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The 144-year-old shipwreck of a rare sailing vessel that typically wasn’t used for long voyages on the Great Lakes has been found in deep water off Lake Ontario’s New York shore, ...

“Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by John U. Bacon strikes a chord with many of us. The stories of crews and ships lost on the Great Lakes are a large part of our history.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Beneath the waters of the Great Lakes, thousands of shipwrecks, hulking carcasses of a bygone era, have been hiding for generations, just waiting ...

Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to That, meet ...

Over the past five decades, parts of the Edmund Fitzgerald have been recovered and preserved and so has the memory of the ship. The ship sits on the bottom of Lake Superior, preserved by the cold, ...

Winter storms on the Great Lakes have a habit of briefly giving things back — from exposed reefs and forgotten shorelines to shipwrecks that have sat underwater for more than a century. Over multiple ...