BAILEYS HARBOR — In another sign that Wisconsin maritime historians are in a golden period of discovery, a wooden schooner hidden beneath the depths of Lake Michigan for nearly 140 years has been ...

A “ghost ship” that sank in Lake Michigan nearly 140 years ago and eluded several search efforts over the past five decades has been found, according to researchers with the Wisconsin Underwater ...

PORT WASHINGTON – About 16 miles offshore, the conditions in Lake Michigan were considered normal and favorable. The winds blew in from the southeast at seven knots, considered a gentle breeze on the ...

On November 28, 1868, an American schooner called the Northerner was loading up with cargo near Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, when its hull became badly damaged. The next day, while being towed to Milwaukee ...

MADISON, Wis. — After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a cargo schooner that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the ...

GLEN ARBOR, Mich. — Ever since she sank in Lake Michigan in 1885, numerous shipwreck hunters have tried and repeatedly failed to find the final resting place of the freighter, Jarvis Lord. The ...

An organization that documents shipwrecks said it has found the wreck of a 60-foot, single-masted sloop in Lake Michigan that may date back to the 1830s while looking for remnants of a plane that ...