Shipwreck · Lake Erie · Collision
SS Sir William Siemens
A lake freighter built in 1896, wrecked on Lake Erie. The record: “Sank in a collision on Lake Erie.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- Globe Iron Works Company, Cleveland, Ohio
- Launched
- July 25, 1896
- Completed
- July 15, 1896
- Length
- 432 ft (132 m)
- Beam
- 48 ft (15 m)
- Tonnage
- 4344 GRT; 3293 NRT
- Propulsion
- 1 × fixed pitch propeller
- Fate
- Sank in a collision on Lake Erie
- Lake
- Lake Erie
- Coordinates
- 41.9592° N, 81.9539° W
The story
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On the bottom nearby
Nearest Erie wrecks
- James B. Colgate14 mi · lost 1916
- Morning Star28 mi
- SS William Edenborn33 mi · lost 1905
- Barge 10434 mi · lost 1898
- Argo35 mi · lost 1937
- Anthony Wayne38 mi
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Sir William Siemens, 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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