Shipwreck · Lake Erie · Collision
Cortland
A barque built in 1867, wrecked on Lake Erie. The record: “Collided with the Morning Star.”
Lost on Lake Erie
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Cortland
Barque · built 1867
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Barque
- Builder
- Albert G. Huntley
- Launched
- 1867
- Length
- 243 ft (74 m)
- Tonnage
- 676
- Fate
- Collided with the Morning Star
- Lake
- Lake Erie
The story
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Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Cortland (1867 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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