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The list of shipwrecks in 1905 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1905 This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The Amboy and George Spencer Shipwreck Site is an archeological shipwreck site which consists of the wrecks of the wooden bulk freighter George Spencer and the wooden schooner-barge Amboy. Both vessels were wrecked during the Mataafa Storm of 1905. In 1994 the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places. [2]
Joseph S Fay, c. 1874. The schooner D. P. Rhodes was built as the Fay's consort, and the pair worked in tandem hauling iron ore.On October 17, 1905, the two ships departed from Escanaba, Michigan en route to Ashtabula, Ohio with a load of iron ore, and the Fay towing the Rhodes.
A December 6, 1905 issue of the Duluth News Tribune wrote about the assessment of the wrecks: Captain C.O. Flynn returned last evening from an inspection of the stranded steamer George Spencer and schooner Amboy. He said "the schooner Amboy is a total wreck ... the steamer Spencer is still in good shape. Her hatches are intact, and she does not ...
She sank in Lake Superior off Silver Bay, Minnesota, in a late-spring snowstorm in 1905. The remains of the ship are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Hesper was a wooden-hulled, single-screw, triple-masted, cargo ship built by the Bradley Transportation Company in Cleveland, Ohio.
Built in Cleveland, Ohio in 1905, the SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 was a train ferry built to transport railway cars across Lake Erie from Conneaut, Ohio, to Port Stanley, Ontario. She had a length of 338 feet (103 meters) and a beam of 54 feet (16 meters), and her gross register tonnage was 2,514.
A December 6, 1905 issue of the Duluth News Tribune wrote about the assessment of the wrecks: Captain C.O. Flynn returned last evening from an inspection of the stranded steamer George Spencer and schooner Amboy. He said "the schooner Amboy is a total wreck ... the steamer Spencer is still in good shape. Her hatches are intact, and she does not ...
2 September 1905 A wooden steamer that sank near the Huron Islands: Ira H. Owen United States: 28 November 1905 Early steel steamer lost off Outer Island with all hands Invincible: 1816 A wooden two-masted schooner employed in the fur trade by the Northwest Company. It was lost in a storm in 1816.