Shipwreck · Lake Erie · Stranded
Walk-in-the-Water
A sidewheel steamboat built in 1818, lost on Lake Erie in 1821. The record: “Ran aground, 1 November 1821.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Sidewheel steamboat
- Launched
- 28 May 1818
- Length
- 132 ft (40 m)
- Beam
- 32 ft (10 m)
- Tonnage
- 240 tons burden
- Propulsion
- Sidewheels; auxiliary sails
- Fate
- Ran aground, 1 November 1821
- Lake
- Lake Erie
- Coordinates
- 42.8780° N, 78.8850° W
The story
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On the bottom nearby
Nearest Erie wrecks
- SS Howard S. Gerken73 mi · lost 1926
- SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 286 mi · lost 1909
- SS James H. Reed106 mi · lost 1944
- James B. Colgate155 mi · lost 1916
- SS William Edenborn168 mi · lost 1905
- SS Sir William Siemens169 mi
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Erie Basin Marina0.1 mi
- Buffalo Harbor State Park2.2 mi
- Sturgeon Point Marina15 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Walk-in-the-Water (steamboat), 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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