Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Collision
SS D. R. Hanna
A lake freighter built in 1906, lost on Lake Huron in 1919. The record: “Rammed by the steamer Quincy A. Shaw in heavy fog off Thunder Bay Island on Lake Huron.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- American Ship Building Company of Lorain, Ohio
- Launched
- October 20, 1906
- Completed
- November 12, 1906
- Length
- 552 ft (168 m)
- Beam
- 56 ft (17 m)
- Tonnage
- 7,023 GRT; 5,491 NRT
- Propulsion
- 1,760 hp triple expansion steam engine
- Crew
- 31
- Fate
- Rammed by the steamer Quincy A. Shaw in heavy fog off Thunder Bay Island on Lake Huron
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 45.0842° N, 83.0866° W
The same decade
Huron losses of the 1910s
- SS Charles S. Price1913 · foundered
- SS Choctaw1915 · 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 Isaac M. Scott2.7 mi · lost 1913
- SS W. P. Thew4.2 mi · lost 1909
- SS D. M. Wilson4.8 mi
- MV Nordmeer5.1 mi · lost 1966
- Typo6.9 mi · lost 1899
- PS New Orleans8.0 mi · lost 1849
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Rockport17 mi
- North Riverfront Park17 mi
- Alpena Municipal Marina17 mi
- Snug Harbor20 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Thunder Bay Island Light6.2 mi
- Middle Island Light14 mi
- Alpena Light17 mi
On shore
Worth the stop
- Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary17 mi · park
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS D. R. Hanna, 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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