Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail ...

With no cargo, the ship was floating high in the water. The storm battered it until it cracked in half. Twenty-seven people perished, including the Minch family, which initially made it onto a ...

Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes MADISON, Wis. -- Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ...

The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ships ... making it harder for ships to out-maneuver the storms, he said. Brittle steel may have played a role in sinking But it’s ...

The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ships to traverse the lakes ... A National Weather Service report called the storm that sank the Western Reserve a “relatively minor ...