Column: Navy sails 250 years on the high seas

Since its opening, Naval Station Great Lakes has gone on to become the Navy’s largest training installation and the home of ...

In the Wake of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm.
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Lake Huron gives up secrets as wreck of ship with local origins found 112 years after sinking

The James Carruthers, one of 13 ships lost between Nov. 7 and 10, 1913, was discovered on the American side of Lake Huron at ...
MLive

Found: Largest missing shipwreck in the Great Lakes

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 ...
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Lake Huron shipwreck lost for more than 100 years: the Carruthers is finally found

LAKE HURON — On a sunny, summer Sunday morning, perfect for being on the water, David Trotter, skippered his 32-foot boat, the Obsession Too, to a nearly 112-year-old shipwreck only a handful of ...

From fur traders to freighters: How Great Lakes storms shaped shipwreck history

From canoes and steamers to the Edmund Fitzgerald, centuries of violent storms on the Great Lakes reveal how technology — and tragedy — have evolved.