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, ...

PRESQUE ISLE, MI – Thick fog hung over Lake Huron on June 18, 1905. The 414-foot steamer Etruria was sailing northbound. The 545-foot freighter Amaza Stone was speeding southbound. The two ships ...

The SS Alpena, the oldest working freighter on Michigan's Great Lakes, is back on course for another shipping season. As of 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 28, the ship was en route from Cleveland, Ohio, and was on ...

Lake Huron’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary is home to hundreds of shipwrecks, each with its own story to tell about ...

The James Carruthers, one of 13 ships lost between Nov. 7 and 10, 1913, was discovered on the American side of Lake Huron at ...

Andrew Pepler — the great-great-great grandson of James Carruthers, the shipping executive after whom a sunken freighter was named — said the news that the missing ship was finally found overwhelmed ...

From hand-built canoes to massive freighters, violent storms have tested ships for centuries and led to tragedies that changed safety forever.

Michigan is home to more than a half dozen historic vessels from the age of sails to steam and diesel power that you can visit and tour. Michigan also features the historic car ferry, SS Badger, but ...

David Trotter and a tight-knit crew of explorers have spent decades looking for lost vessels. The Carruthers was the last of eight vessels that sank in a 1913 storm that was still missing. LAKE HURON ...

MADISON, Wis. — The Great Lakes’ frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards. Downed planes that spent decades underwater were left so ...