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 ...

Shipwreck hunters found the SS James Carruthers, a wheat-carrying cargo ship that sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. It's belly up in the bed of Lake Huron.

On Nov. 9, the captain of the Sheadle saw the Carruthers enter Lake Huron. While there’s no somber ballad to tell the tale of the wreck of the James Carruthers like there is with the Edmund Fitzgerald ...

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 ...

Fifty years after the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a deadly Lake Superior storm, descendants of its namesake are returning to Port Huron, not just to honor the tragedy, but to help complete the ...

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 Fitzgerald family has a long maritime history in Port Huron, dating back to 1837. The swim will trace the freighter's intended route, symbolically completing its final voyage. The relay will raise ...