Shipwreck · Lake Erie · Foundered
SS William Edenborn
A vessel built in 1900, lost on Lake Erie in 1905. The record: “Sunk as a breakwater at Cleveland, Ohio.”
The vessel
On the record
- Builder
- West Bay City Shipbuilding Company
- Completed
- 1900
- Length
- 497 ft (151 m)
- Beam
- 52 ft (16 m)
- Tonnage
- 5085 GRT, 4431 NRT
- Propulsion
- Triple expansion steam engine
- Fate
- Sunk as a breakwater at Cleveland, Ohio
- Lake
- Lake Erie
- Coordinates
- 41.5427° N, 81.6372° W
The story
Read the full history
The same year
Also lost in 1905
- MinnedosaHuron · foundered
- SS EtruriaHuron · collision
- SS KaliyugaHuron · foundered
- R. J. HackettMichigan · foundered
- SS AppomattoxMichigan · stranded
- SS EastlandMichigan
- AmboySuperior · stranded
- MadeiraSuperior · foundered
- NoquebaySuperior · fire
- SevonaSuperior · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Erie wrecks
- Barge 1045.1 mi · lost 1898
- Morning Star29 mi
- SS Sir William Siemens33 mi
- James B. Colgate38 mi · lost 1916
- Anthony Wayne39 mi
- Argo45 mi · lost 1937
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Gordon Park0.3 mi
- Wildwood Park4.8 mi
- Edgewater Park5.8 mi
- Rocky River Reservation11 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
On shore
Worth the stop
- Headlands Beach State Park23 mi · beach
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS William Edenborn, 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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