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 ...

The wreck of a “ghost ship” cargo schooner that sank off a Wisconsin coastline during a ferocious storm has finally been uncovered 140 years later. A team led by researcher Brandon Baillod found the ...

BAILEYS HARBOR, Wis. -- Brendon Baillod wasn't expecting to find the F.J. King. Sure, the president of the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association (WUAA) had researched the old schooner's wreck.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a “ghost ship” that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the ...

The Cataraqui went down with over 400 migrants aboard. The Birkenhead sank with soldiers standing in line. These wrecks exposed how unprepared 19th-century sea travel really was San Antonio to lose ...

'Along Lake Michigan' is a deftly told collection of 14 shipwrecks in the Great Lake. In addition to severe storms, poorly maintained vessels and hubris were sometimes a factor in the shipwrecks.

TOLEDO, Ohio — The sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most famous shipwrecks in Great Lakes history, but it's just one of hundreds of vessels lost to these waters. For researchers, ...