Shipwreck · Lake Erie · Foundered
Anthony Wayne
A sidewheel steamer - passengers and package freight built in 1837, wrecked on Lake Erie. The record: “Sank after a boiler explosion.” The wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Sidewheel steamer - passengers and package freight
- Builder
- Samuel L. Hubbell, Perrysburg, Ohio
- Completed
- August 8, 1837
- Length
- 157 ft (48 m)
- Beam
- 26 ft (8 m)
- Tonnage
- 390.50 gross tonnage
- Fate
- Sank after a boiler explosion.
- Wreck site
- Lake Erie, near Vermilion, Ohio
- National Register
- Listed January 2, 2018 · ref. 15000479
- Lake
- Lake Erie
- Coordinates
- 41.5167° N, 82.3833° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Erie wrecks
- Argo10 mi · lost 1937
- Morning Star11 mi
- Barge 10434 mi · lost 1898
- SS Sir William Siemens38 mi
- SS William Edenborn39 mi · lost 1905
- James B. Colgate52 mi · lost 1916
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Wakefield MetroPark6.4 mi
- Main Street Beach6.4 mi
- South Street Launch Ramp6.8 mi
- Showse Park7.0 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
On shore
Worth the stop
- Marblehead Lighthouse17 mi · lighthouse
- Kelleys Island Glacial Grooves18 mi · park
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Anthony Wayne (steamboat), retrieved 2026-10-11. We print the fields as recorded and add nothing; a missing field means the record is silent. Tonnage and dimensions were often measured more than one way in their day, so they can differ between sources.
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