Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Winter storms on the Great Lakes have a habit of briefly giving things back — from exposed reefs and forgotten shorelines to ...

On November 28, 1868, an American schooner called the Northerner was loading up with cargo near Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, when its hull became badly damaged. The next day, while being towed to Milwaukee ...

The J.C. Ames was a powerful towing tug built in Manitowoc in 1881. It had a 41-year career. Now, it's the first shipwreck ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The 144-year-old shipwreck of a rare sailing vessel that typically wasn’t used for long voyages on the Great Lakes has been found in deep water off Lake Ontario’s New York shore, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Beneath the waters of the Great Lakes, thousands of shipwrecks, hulking carcasses of a bygone era, have been hiding for generations, just waiting ...

STURGEON BAY (WLUK) -- The winter fleet is gathering in Sturgeon Bay.Even on a very cold Friday morning, Door County Maritime Museum President and CEO Kevin Osg Northeast Wisconsin businesses make a ...

Over the past five decades, parts of the Edmund Fitzgerald have been recovered and preserved and so has the memory of the ship. The ship sits on the bottom of Lake Superior, preserved by the cold, ...

Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to That, meet ...

Winter storms on the Great Lakes have a habit of briefly giving things back — from exposed reefs and forgotten shorelines to shipwrecks that have sat underwater for more than a century. Over multiple ...