It was a late summer evening when conditions on Lake Superior turned from bad to treacherous. The year was 1892, and the ship – a 300-foot steamer christened the Western Reserve, hailed as one of the ...
ALPENA, MI – This early freighter’s steel hull proved brittle when it tore apart on a Lake Huron reef in 1906. The nearly 300-foot steamer Grecian was in service from 1891 until June 15, 1906, ...