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Shipwreck hunters found the SS James Carruthers, a wheat-carrying cargo ship that sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. It's belly up in the bed of Lake Huron.
Until Trotter found it, the Carruthers was the last of eight vessels still missing on Lake Huron that sank during the storm. It also, until recently, was among the largest sunken ships in the Great ...
NPR's Juana Summers talks with maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen about the record number of shipwreck discoveries in the Great Lakes in recent years, including two just in the last several months.
Construction is underway on Milwaukee's $17 million South Shore Cruise Dock as the city looks to bolster its growing cruise ...
Milwaukee breaks ground on $9M South Shore cruise dock in Bayview, designed for largest Great Lakes ships and opening for ...
What was the largest missing shipwreck in the Great Lakes has been found. The S.S. James Carruthers wrecked in Lake Huron during the catastrophic White Hurricane of 1913, which claimed at least 250 ...
A Wisconsin angler with a family legacy of shipwreck discoveries has discovered one of the largest tugboats to ever tow on the Great Lakes, scrapped more than a century ago off the shores of Manitowoc ...