Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Collision
SS Choctaw
A lake freighter built in 1892, lost on Lake Huron in 1915. The record: “Rammed by the Canadian steamer Wahcondah on Lake Huron, sinking shortly after the collision.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- Cleveland Shipbuilding Company
- Launched
- May 25, 1892
- Completed
- June 24, 1892
- Length
- 267 ft (81 m)
- Beam
- 38 ft (12 m)
- Tonnage
- 1573.61 gross register tons; 1256.28 net register tons
- Propulsion
- 1 × fixed pitch propeller
- Crew
- 22
- Fate
- Rammed by the Canadian steamer Wahcondah on Lake Huron, sinking shortly after the collision
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 45.5343° N, 83.5093° W
The same decade
Huron losses of the 1910s
- SS Charles S. Price1913 · foundered
- SS D. R. Hanna1919 · collision
- SS Isaac M. Scott1913 · foundered
- SS James Carruthers1913 · foundered
- SS John A. McGean1913 · foundered
- SS Regina1913 · foundered
- SS Wexford1913 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- SS Ohio1.5 mi · lost 1894
- SS Etruria3.9 mi · lost 1905
- Kyle Spangler11 mi · lost 1860
- F. T. Barney16 mi
- Cornelia B. Windiate17 mi · lost 1875
- John J. Audubon19 mi · lost 1854
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Choctaw, 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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