On Sept. 8, 1860, the PS Lady Elgin collided with the schooner Augusta, resulting in the deaths of more than 300 people.

"It sat there for over a hundred years and then came back on our radar completely by chance," a maritime archaeologist said after a fisherman discovered a historic shipwreck in Lake Michigan.

A World War I-era freighter that sank to the bottom of Lake Superior 100 years ago has been located.

Searchers have found a long-lost Great Lakes ship that came to a tragic end.

A 292-foot Whaleback barge has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Superior nearly 120 years after it sunk during a powerful storm in 1902.

Endurance belonged to Sir Ernest Shackleton, who led a crew of 27-men and 69 dogs who attempted to traverse the continent via the South Pole and establish a base on the coast of the Weddell Sea.

On Sept. 8, 1860, the PS Lady Elgin collided with the schooner Augusta, resulting in the deaths of more than 300 people.

On Sept. 8, 1860, the PS Lady Elgin collided with the schooner Augusta, resulting in the deaths of more than 300 people.