Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Collision
Corsican
A wooden two-masted schooner built in 1862, lost on Lake Huron in 1893. The record: “Sunk after collision June 1893.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Wooden two-masted schooner
- Builder
- H. Rogers
- Launched
- 1862
- Length
- 112 ft (34 m)
- Beam
- 25 ft (8 m)
- Tonnage
- 210 GRT
- Propulsion
- Sail
- Crew
- 6 (lost)
- Fate
- Sunk after collision June 1893
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 44.9127° N, 83.0550° W
The same decade
Huron losses of the 1890s
- John Shaw1894 · foundered
- SS Florida1897 · collision
- SS Messenger1890 · fire
- SS Norman1895
- SS Ohio1894 · foundered
- Typo1899 · collision
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- Typo5.5 mi · lost 1899
- SS W. P. Thew10 mi · lost 1909
- SS Isaac M. Scott11 mi · lost 1913
- SS D. R. Hanna12 mi · lost 1919
- SS D. M. Wilson12 mi
- PS New Orleans13 mi · lost 1849
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Black River Mouth14 mi
- Snug Harbor17 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
On shore
Worth the stop
- Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary21 mi · park
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Corsican (schooner), 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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