PRESQUE ISLE, MI – Thick fog hung over Lake Huron on June 18, 1905. The 414-foot steamer Etruria was sailing northbound. The 545-foot freighter Amaza Stone was speeding southbound. The two ships ...

ALPENA, MI – This early freighter’s steel hull proved brittle when it tore apart on a Lake Huron reef in 1906. The nearly 300-foot steamer Grecian was in service from 1891 until June 15, 1906, ...

In November 1913, a massive winter storm swept through the Great Lakes. Nicknamed the “White Hurricane,” the blizzard caused one of the largest inland maritime disasters in United States history, ...

HARBOR BEACH, Mich. – Dramatic video captured a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter airlifting someone off a large freighter on Lake Huron. According to authorities, an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter was sent from ...

David Trotter and a tight-knit crew of explorers have spent decades looking for lost vessels. The Carruthers was the last of eight vessels that sank in a 1913 storm that was still missing. LAKE HURON ...

The James Carruthers was one of a dozen ships that sank during the "White Hurricane" that swept across the Great Lakes in November 1913. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In November 1913, a massive ...