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

Unfortunately, her career was cut tragically short when, in 1892, she was lost in a Lake Superior gale with only one survivor. In late August of 1892, SS Western Reserve set sail from Cleveland ...

“The final resting place of the 300’ steel steamer Western Reserve has been discovered roughly 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point in Lake Superior,” the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum said ...

A bell found amid the wreckage of the Western Reserve at the bottom of Lake Superior. (The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society via Storyful) Divers recently plunged into the depths of Lake ...

The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel ... a mile of shoreline west of the Deer Park Life-Saving Station on Lake Superior's southeast shoreline when the lifeboat overturned in the ...