Shipwreck · Lake Erie · Foundered
Argo
A tank barge built in 1911, lost on Lake Erie in 1937. The record: “Sank 1937.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Tank barge
- Builder
- Spedden Shipbuilding Company
- Launched
- 1911
- Length
- 120 ft (37 m)
- Beam
- 34 ft (10 m)
- Tonnage
- 421
- Fate
- Sank 1937
- Lake
- Lake Erie
- Coordinates
- 41.6392° N, 82.4931° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Erie wrecks
- Anthony Wayne10 mi
- Morning Star15 mi
- SS Sir William Siemens35 mi
- Barge 10441 mi · lost 1898
- SS William Edenborn45 mi · lost 1905
- James B. Colgate50 mi · lost 1916
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Kelleys Island State Park11 mi
- Middle Bass Island East Point Preserve15 mi
- Mazurik Access Area16 mi
- Big Island Preserve and Landing16 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Marblehead Light13 mi
- Cedar Point Light15 mi
- Vermilion Light16 mi
On shore
Worth the stop
- Kelleys Island Glacial Grooves11 mi · park
- Marblehead Lighthouse13 mi · lighthouse
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Argo (barge), 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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