Shipwreck · Lake Erie · Fire
SS G. P. Griffith
A wooden steamship built in 1848, lost on Lake Erie in 1850. The record: “Beached and burned to the waterline, 17 June 1850.”
Lost on Lake Erie
1850
SS G. P. Griffith
Wooden steamship · built 1848 · lost 1850
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Wooden steamship
- Completed
- 1848
- Length
- 193 ft (59 m)
- Tonnage
- 587
- Propulsion
- Paddle wheels
- Fate
- Beached and burned to the waterline, 17 June 1850
- Lake
- Lake Erie
The story
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Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS G. P. Griffith, 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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