Shipwreck · Lake Erie · Foundered
Barge 104
A whaleback barge built in 1890, lost on Lake Erie in 1898. The record: “Sank on Lake Erie after striking the West Breakwater in Cleveland, Ohio.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Whaleback barge
- Builder
- American Steel Barge Company of Duluth, Minnesota
- Launched
- February 6, 1890
- Completed
- April 21, 1890
- Length
- 288 ft (88 m)
- Beam
- 36 ft (11 m)
- Tonnage
- 1,295 gross tons; 1,230 net tons
- Propulsion
- Towed by a steamship
- Crew
- 7
- Fate
- Sank on Lake Erie after striking the West Breakwater in Cleveland, Ohio
- Lake
- Lake Erie
- Coordinates
- 41.5044° N, 81.7225° W
The same year
Also lost in 1898
- SS L.R. DotyMichigan · foundered
- St. PeterOntario · foundered
- SS Henry ChisholmSuperior · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Erie wrecks
- SS William Edenborn5.1 mi · lost 1905
- Morning Star26 mi
- SS Sir William Siemens34 mi
- Anthony Wayne34 mi
- James B. Colgate40 mi · lost 1916
- Argo41 mi · lost 1937
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Edgewater Park0.8 mi
- Gordon Park5.2 mi
- Rocky River Reservation5.8 mi
- Bradstreet's Landing7.7 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
On shore
Worth the stop
- Headlands Beach State Park28 mi · beach
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article 104 (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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