Shipwreck · Lake Erie · Foundered
James B. Colgate
A whaleback freighter built in 1892, lost on Lake Erie in 1916. The record: “Sunk in storm, 20 October 1916.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Whaleback freighter
- Completed
- 1892
- Length
- 308 ft (94 m)
- Beam
- 38 ft (12 m)
- Tonnage
- 1,713
- Crew
- 26
- Fate
- Sunk in storm, 20 October 1916
- Lake
- Lake Erie
- Coordinates
- 42.0896° N, 81.7380° W
The story
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On the bottom nearby
Nearest Erie wrecks
- SS Sir William Siemens14 mi
- SS William Edenborn38 mi · lost 1905
- Barge 10440 mi · lost 1898
- Morning Star41 mi
- Argo50 mi · lost 1937
- SS James H. Reed50 mi · lost 1944
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article James B. Colgate (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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