Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Foundered
SS Asia
A passenger-cargo ship built in 1873, lost on Lake Huron in 1882. The record: “Sank, 14 September 1882.”
Lost on Lake Huron
1882
SS Asia
Passenger-cargo ship · built 1873 · lost 1882
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Passenger-cargo ship
- Builder
- Simpson M., Saint Catharines, Ontario
- Launched
- 1873
- Length
- 136 ft (41 m)
- Beam
- 23 ft (7 m)
- Tonnage
- 364 GRT
- Propulsion
- 1 boiler, compound steam engine, single screw
- Fate
- Sank, 14 September 1882
- Lake
- Lake Huron
The same decade
Huron losses of the 1880s
- Erie Belle1883
- SS Jane Miller1881 · foundered
- Sweepstakes1885 · foundered
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Asia (1873), 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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