Shipwreck · Lake Erie · Collision
SS James H. Reed
A lake freighter built in 1903, lost on Lake Erie in 1944. The record: “Sank in a collision on Lake Erie.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- Detroit Shipbuilding Company, Wyandotte, Michigan
- Launched
- 29 May 1903
- Length
- 468 ft (143 m)
- Beam
- 52 ft (16 m)
- Tonnage
- 5598 GRT; 4125 NRT
- Propulsion
- 1 × propeller
- Crew
- 36
- Fate
- Sank in a collision on Lake Erie
- Lake
- Lake Erie
- Coordinates
- 42.2695° N, 80.7962° W
The story
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On the bottom nearby
Nearest Erie wrecks
- SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 227 mi · lost 1909
- SS Howard S. Gerken38 mi · lost 1926
- James B. Colgate50 mi · lost 1916
- SS Sir William Siemens63 mi
- SS William Edenborn66 mi · lost 1905
- Barge 10471 mi · lost 1898
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS James H. Reed, 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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