Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Foundered
SS D. M. Wilson
A lake freighter built in 1873, wrecked on Lake Huron. The record: “Sank on Lake Huron.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- Simon Langell, St. Clair, Michigan
- Launched
- May 1873
- Completed
- 1873
- Length
- 179 ft (55 m)
- Beam
- 32 ft (10 m)
- Tonnage
- 757 GRT; 591 NRT
- Propulsion
- 1 × propeller
- Fate
- Sank on Lake Huron
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 45.0653° N, 83.1821° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- SS W. P. Thew2.0 mi · lost 1909
- PS New Orleans3.2 mi · lost 1849
- SS D. R. Hanna4.8 mi · lost 1919
- MV Nordmeer5.0 mi · lost 1966
- SS Isaac M. Scott7.0 mi · lost 1913
- SS Oscar T. Flint8.5 mi · lost 1909
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Alpena Municipal Marina12 mi
- North Riverfront Park12 mi
- Rockport14 mi
- Snug Harbor15 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Thunder Bay Island Light2.0 mi
- Middle Island Light11 mi
- Alpena Light12 mi
On shore
Worth the stop
- Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary12 mi · park
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS D. M. Wilson, 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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