US Navy turns 250: How Chicago has helped prepare sailors, from World War training to recruiting

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Monday is the U.S. Navy's 250th birthday, and Chicago's connection to the service runs deep. From World War ...
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Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society finds wreck of 300-foot steamer ‘Western Reserve’

CHIPPEWA COUNTY — After 132 years, the final resting place of the 300′ steel steamer Western Reserve has been discovered roughly 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point in Lake Superior. According to a ...
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Floating palaces of the Great Lakes : a history of passenger steamships on the inland seas / Joel Stone

Introduction: steam navigation on the Great Lakes -- Steam navigation from 1817 to 1860 -- Harnessing steam -- Early years on the lakes -- Opening the frontier -- Birth of an industry -- Regional ...

Wreckage of 300-foot ship missing for 132 years found in Lake Superior

The remains of the steamer Western Reserve have been confirmed to be located in Lake Superior. The Great Lakes Shipwreck ...

November's gales are famous on the Great Lakes. These wrecks show spring can be deadly

Early spring on the Great Lakes has historically seen a few major deadly disasters as shipping season kicks off. But the season isn't completely safe.

They served on the Edmund Fitzgerald — and still carry its memory 50 years later

Northwest Ohio’s Mike Capser and Tom Walton once worked aboard the “Toledo Express.” Their stories keep the Edmund Fitzgerald ...
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Tugboat Arctic was a harbor workhorse. It now rests below Lake Michigan's waters in Manitowoc.

One of these notable workhouse ice-breaking tugs built to serve the port of Manitowoc was Arctic. Launched at the Rand & ...