Hunters recently located the 217-foot steamer that went down in October 1872, after a quest that began almost 60 years ago.

Searchers have discovered the wreck of a luxury steamer that sank in a Lake Michigan gale in the late 19th century, ...

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

It was bound from Milwaukee to Grand Haven with 53 crew and passengers carrying 19,000 bushels of barley, 1,200 barrels of ...

Searchers discovered the wreck of a luxury steamer that sank offshore between Racine and Kenosha in the late 1800s.

“It was a moment of real jubilation,” said shipwreck hunter Paul Ehorn. “We knew we had done it” ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The recent discovery of the Lac La Belle, which sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan in 1872, does more than scratch it from the list of long-sought shipwrecks. It takes one back – if ...

“It was a moment of real jubilation” Ehorn said in the news release. “We knew we had done it.” ...

MANITOWOC, WI — A shipwreck hunter has located the Lac La Belle, a sidewheel steamer that has eluded searchers for more than a century. Illinois diver Paul Ehorn announced the discovery in a Feb. 13 ...

A diver was left stunned when her boyfriend proposed underwater in front of a Fiji shipwreck. Kim Paterson, 32, was posing ...

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