Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve sank during a gale on Lake Superior in August 1892. Twenty-seven people were killed. Wheelsman Harry W. Stewart was the lone survivor.
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Then tragedy struck. As the ship entered Lake Superior’s Whitefish Bay between Michigan and Canada on Aug. 30, a gale came up. With no cargo aboard, the ship was light and floating high in the water. The storm battered it until it cracked in half. Twenty-seven people perished that night, including the Minch family. The only survivor was wheelsman Harry W. Stewart, who swam a mile to shore after his lifeboat capsized.
“There’s a number of concurrent stories that make this important,” Lynn said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “Most ships were still wooden. It was a technologically advanced ship. They were kind of a famous family at the time. You have this new ship, considered one of the safest on the lake, new tech, a big, big ship. is another way for us to keep this history alive.”
Lynn said this winter the brothers outlined a search grid. On July 22 they set out on the David Boyd, the society’s research vessel. Heavy ship traffic that day forced them to alter their course, though, and search an area adjacent to their original grid, Lynn said.
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