Shipwreck · Lake Erie · Foundered
SS Margaret Olwill
A steam barge built in 1887, lost on Lake Erie in 1899. The record: “Sunk June 28, 1899.”
Lost on Lake Erie
1899
SS Margaret Olwill
Steam barge · built 1887 · lost 1899
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Steam barge
- Builder
- Henry D. Root
- Completed
- 1887
- Length
- 176 ft (54 m)
- Tonnage
- 554
- Crew
- 9
- Fate
- Sunk June 28, 1899
- Lake
- Lake Erie
The story
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The same year
Also lost in 1899
- TypoHuron · collision
- SS John V. MoranMichigan · foundered
- SS R. G. StewartSuperior · fire
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Margaret Olwill, 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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