DATE OF LAUNCH: April 28, 1909 DATE AND LOCATION OF LOSS: April 28, 1914, Lake Superior, near Knife Island, east of Duluth, Wisconsin DATE LOCATED: Fall 2004 SHIP DETAILS: The SS Benjamin Noble was a lake freighter that operated on the Great Lakes. Built in 1909 by the Detroit Shipbuilding Company, she was 239 feet … Continue reading SS Benjamin Noble
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald
DATE OF LAUNCH: June 7, 1958 DATE AND LOCATION OF LOSS: November 10, 1975, Lake Superior, near Sault Ste. Marie, Canada DATE LOCATED: November 14, 1975 SHIP DETAILS: Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, invested in the iron and minerals industries on a large-scale basis, including the construction of Edmund Fitzgerald, which represented … Continue reading SS Edmund Fitzgerald
SS America
DATE OF LAUNCH: April 2, 1898 DATE AND LOCATION OF LOSS: June 7, 1928, Lake Superior, off Isle Royale National Park, Michigan DATE LOCATED: not applicable INTERESTING FACTS: SS America was a steel-hulled ship, built by the Detroit Dry Dock Company and launched on April 2, 1898. Less than a month after her launch, America … Continue reading SS America
SS Kamloops
DATE OF LAUNCH: July 1924 DATE AND LOCATION OF LOSS: December 7, 1927, Lake Superior, northwest of Isle Royale MI, near Kamloops Point DATE LOCATED: August 21, 1977 SHIP DETAILS: The steamship Kamloops was built by Furness Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in Haverton Hill, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England, United Kingdom, for Steamships Ltd. of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. … Continue reading SS Kamloops
SS City of Bangor
DATE OF LAUNCH: 1896 DATE AND LOCATION OF LOSS: November 30, 1926, Lake Superior, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan DATE LOCATED: November 30, 1926 SHIP DETAILS: City of Bangor was a freighter that had a 30-year career on the Great Lakes. Originally designed to carry ore, the ship was converted into an automobile carrier in 1925. CIRCUMSTANCES … Continue reading SS City of Bangor
SS Henry B. Smith
DATE OF LAUNCH: May 2, 1906 DATE AND LOCATION OF LOSS: estimated November 9, 1913, Lake Superior, near Marquette, Michigan DATE LOCATED: May 24, 2013 SHIP DETAILS: The SS Henry B. Smith was a steel-hulled lake freighter built in 1906 by the American Ship Building Company at Lorain, Ohio. CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE LOSS: The ship … Continue reading SS Henry B. Smith
SS Leafield
DATE OF LAUNCH: 1892 DATE AND LOCATION OF LOSS: November 9, 1913, Lake Superior DATE LOCATED: not located SHIP DETAILS: SS Leafield was a Canadian steel-hulled cargo ship built by the Strand Stepway Company in Sunderland, England, in 1892. Originally registered in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, she was sold after about a year to the … Continue reading SS Leafield
SS Gunilda
DATE OF LAUNCH: April 1, 1897 DATE AND LOCATION OF LOSS: August 1911, Lake Superior, near Copper Island, off Rossport, Ontario DATE LOCATED: 1967 SHIP DETAILS: Gunilda was a steel-hulled Scottish-built steam yacht in service between her construction in 1897 and her sinking in Lake Superior in 1911. Built in 1897 in Leith, Scotland by … Continue reading SS Gunilda
SS William C. Moreland
DATE OF LAUNCH: July 27, 1910 DATE AND LOCATION OF LOSS: October 18, 1910, Lake Superior, off the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan DATE LOCATED: October 18, 1910 SHIP DETAILS: The Jones and Laughlin Steel Company commissioned two identical vessels; William C. Moreland from the American Shipbuilding Company (AMSHIP) and Willis L. King from the Great Lakes … Continue reading SS William C. Moreland
SS John B. Cowle
DATE OF LAUNCH: October 2, 1902 DATE AND LOCATION OF LOSS: July 12, 1909, Lake Superior, near Whitefish Point DATE LOCATED: 1972 SHIP DETAILS: The steamer John B. Cowle was built in 1902 by the Jenks Shipbuilding Company for the newly formed Cowle Transit Company. She was the first of two ships named for prominent … Continue reading SS John B. Cowle
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