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Wreckage of Western Reserve Found in Lake Superior
Explorers from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society located the Western Reserve, a 300-foot all steel freighter nicknamed the inland greyhound, broken in two in 600 feet of water off Michigan's Upper Peninsula after a August 1892 gale. Survivors and artifacts were scarce, with a single running light recovered. the discovery rekindles history of early steel-hulled vessels and Great Lakes storms.
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Madison
Wis
Great Lakes
Western Reserve
Lakes
Peter Minch
Lake Superior
Whitefish Bay
Michigan
Canada
Minch
Harry W. Stewart
New Tech
Lynn
Society
Darryl Ertel
Edmund Fitzgerald
Whitefish Point
Gordon Lightfoot
Wisconsin State
Ed Hopkins
Hopkins
National Weather Service
Wisconsin Marine Historical Society
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration