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The lake freighter SS Henry Steinbrenner was a 427-foot (130 m) long, 50-foot (15 m) wide, and 28-foot (8.5 m) deep, [1] dry bulk freighter of typical construction style for the early 1900s, primarily designed for the iron ore, coal, and grain trades on the Great Lakes.
A schooner barge in 95 feet (29 m) of water; wreck discovered in September 2017. Hilda: Wrecker. House boat Located in Chaumont Bay James H. Shrigley: A coal barge on Wautoma Shoals in shallow water. J.W. Langmuir: 7 October 1875 The schooner sank with a load of Lumber off Gallo Island. Katie Eccles: Ran aground near Kingston on Lake Ontario ...
SS Henry Steinbrenner, May 11, 1953, Lake Superior, 17 of 31 crew died, (flooded after the cargo hatch covers were lost during a storm) SS Emperor, June 4, 1947, Lake Superior, 12 of 33 crew died, (ran into rocks at Isle Royale) SS Superior City, August 20, 1920, Lake Superior, 29 of 33 crew died, (collision with freighter Willis L. King)
List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1953 Ship State Description Attu Island United States Carrying a cargo of 5,000 tons of cement and damaged earlier in her voyage when she struck a reef off Pennock Island in Southeast Alaska while under tow by the tug Hercules ( United States), the 328-foot (100.0 m) LST-type barge capsized and sank bottom-up 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km; 0.6 mi) south of Bar Harbor ...
SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) ... Norm Bragg, who survived the 1953 wreck of the SS Henry Steinbrenner in Lake Superior, was a watchman on board. He ...
SS Harriet B. SS Henry B. Smith; ... SS Henry Steinbrenner; SS Hesper; SS Hudson (1887) I. Independence (steamboat) SS Indiana (1848) French minesweepers Inkerman and ...
In 1953, Wilfred Sykes responded to the distress call of the SS Henry Steinbrenner. First mate Arthur Ritter and nine other crew entered frigid Lake Superior in one of the ship's lifeboats to look for survivors. They rescued two men. When the crew arrived at Indiana Harbor, each crew member was given a U.S. savings bond. [92]
S.S. Puritan (George M. Cox) SS Henry Chisholm PS Cumberland To the west and south of Isle Royale is the Rock of Ages Lighthouse.Built in 1908, the light has provided the ships of Lake Superior with assurances that the Rock of Ages reef would be found by the captain, before the reef found the ship.