Shipwreck · Lake Erie · Collision
Atlantic
A vessel built in 1848, lost on Lake Erie in 1852. The record: “Sunk after collision, 20 August 1852.”
Lost on Lake Erie
1852
Atlantic
built 1848 · lost 1852
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Builder
- J. L. Wolverton
- Completed
- 1848 or 1849
- Length
- 267 ft (81 m)
- Beam
- 33 ft (10 m)
- Tonnage
- 1155 tons
- Fate
- Sunk after collision, 20 August 1852
- Lake
- Lake Erie
The story
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Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Atlantic (1848 ship), 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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