In November 1909, the freighter Mataafa left Duluth during a late-season storm that quickly intensified over Lake Superior.

In October 1907, the brand-new 420-foot freighter SS Cyprus was overtaking another ship on Lake Superior when witnesses ...

A group of volunteer divers, historians and shipwreck hunters found the wreck of the James Carruthers on May 26. It sank ...

In the last half-century, Lake Erie has had an increasing number of low- or no-ice conditions well into the winter. That ...

The wreck of a luxury steamer that sank in a Lake Michigan gale nearly 150 years ago has been discovered, searchers announced ...

Nearly 150 years to the day after it was lost, shipwreck divers discovered the remains of the Lac La Belle, a passenger ...

Ehorn will be presenting the discovery in person at the 2026 Ghost Ships Festival at the Inn on Maritime Bay in Manitowoc on March 7.

Lac La Belle carried 53 passengers and crew when it encountered a fierce storm in mid-October 1872. Eight people died.

LAKE SUPERIOR, MI – SEPTEMBER, 1997: Evening aboard the 1,00-foot coal freighter “Walter J. McCarthy, Jr.” looking eastward across the ship’s bow, toward the locks at Sault Saint Marie, Michigan.

As below-freezing temperatures continue across Michigan, Lake Superior now has its highest ice concentration this season. Lake Superior's surface was 50% frozen over as of Feb. 9, about a 10 ...

The bitter cold Arctic air of last week has created a lot of ice on Lake Superior. Here’s a look at the ice situation on the largest freshwater lake in the world, by surface area. Yes, Lake Superior ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s no surprise that recent cold weather is causing ice to form on even the biggest lake, but this year, much like our winter ...