A ship missing since the late 1800s has been discovered in Lake Michigan, the Wisconsin Historical Society said Friday. “Shipwreck hunters and historians Brendon Baillod and Bob Jaeck located the ...

ALGOMA, Wis. (WLUK) -- Underneath the surface of Lake Michigan, off the coast of Algoma, lies a previously held secret. The Margaret Muir, a schooner built in Manitowoc in 1872, sank during a violent ...

MANITOWOC (AP) -- A Wisconsin angler fishing in the fog this week discovered the wreck of an abandoned tugboat submerged in the waters of Lake Michigan for more than a century, state officials ...

Shipwreck hunters, divers, even a little girl out fishing found some of Lake Michigan's most historic secrets last year in record numbers. Thirteen new shipwrecks were discovered, according to the ...

In the fall of 1887, the Frank D. Barker was sailing across Lake Michigan when the weather began to deteriorate. Cruising through a thick blanket of heavy fog, the two-masted wooden schooner went off ...

CHARLEVIOX, MI – This Lake Michigan lighthouse is among several places in one Up North town that the governor recently recognized for historic preservation. The annual Governor’s Awards for Historic ...

WHITEFISH POINT, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society said Tuesday that it has located two ships that sank in Lake Superior in November 1914. The historical society said ...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society is mourning the death of Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian folk singer-songwriter whose hit "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" commemorates the 1975 Lake ...

CHARLEVOIX — A ship ablaze in the dark waters of Lake Michigan. Dozens clinging to debris. Rain, panic and heroism. That was the reality off Charlevoix’s Fisherman’s Island on the night of June 16, ...