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

TOLEDO, Ohio — The sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most famous shipwrecks in Great Lakes history, but it's just one of hundreds of vessels lost to these waters. For researchers, ...

PARADISE — Thousands of ships have sunk to a watery grave in the Great Lakes, and the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point is dedicated to telling their stories. If you're planning a visit ...

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.

Researchers discovered a 19th century “ghost ship” in Lake Michigan. The missing clue to the wreck’s location was hiding in plain sight in a local newspaper clip.

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes, an Americanbuilt, ...

A bit of wood poking out of the sand. A piece of metal under the waves. You may have stumbled upon a washed-up shipwreck. An estimated 6,000 vessels have been lost on the Great Lakes with ...

In the last several months, two more-than-a-century-old shipwrecks were discovered in the Great Lakes - the SS James Carruthers in Lake Huron, one of the largest missing ships in the region, and the ...