Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ...

With no cargo, the ship was floating high in the water. The storm battered it until it cracked in half. Twenty-seven people perished, including the Minch family. The only survivor was wheelsman ...

Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great ... the 300-foot Western Reserve was caught in a storm this far from shore made a uneasy feeling ...