Shipwreck · Lake Huron
Defiance
A wooden two-masted schooner built in 1848, lost on Lake Huron in 1854. The record: “Wrecked in Lake Huron October 21, 1854.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Wooden two-masted schooner
- Builder
- Captain Roby
- Launched
- 1848
- Length
- 115 ft (35 m)
- Beam
- 26 ft (8 m)
- Tonnage
- 253 GRT
- Fate
- Wrecked in Lake Huron October 21, 1854
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 45.2343° N, 83.2785° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- SS Florida4.3 mi · lost 1897
- John J. Audubon4.8 mi · lost 1854
- SS Norman5.3 mi · lost 1895
- Cornelia B. Windiate6.7 mi · lost 1875
- MV Nordmeer8.9 mi · lost 1966
- SS D. M. Wilson13 mi
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Rockport5.5 mi
- Presque Isle13 mi
- North Riverfront Park14 mi
- Alpena Municipal Marina14 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Middle Island Light3.5 mi
- Old Presque Isle Light12 mi
- New Presque Isle Light13 mi
On shore
Worth the stop
- Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary14 mi · park
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Defiance (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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