Shipwreck · Lake Huron
Erie Belle
A tug built in 1862, lost on Lake Huron in 1883. The record: “Boiler exploded, November 21, 1883.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Tug
- Builder
- Peck & Masters, Cleveland, Ohio
- Launched
- 1862
- Length
- 117 ft (36 m)
- Beam
- 20 ft (6 m)
- Propulsion
- 150 hp steam engine
- Crew
- 12
- Fate
- Boiler exploded, November 21, 1883
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 44.1567° N, 81.6590° W
The same decade
Huron losses of the 1880s
- SS Asia1882 · foundered
- SS Jane Miller1881 · foundered
- Sweepstakes1885 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- SS John A. McGean45 mi · lost 1913
- SS Clifton47 mi · lost 1924
- SS Wexford53 mi · lost 1913
- SS Monrovia53 mi · lost 1959
- SS James Carruthers55 mi · lost 1913
- SS Daniel J. Morrell59 mi · lost 1966
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Erie Belle, 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.
Chart shoreline generalized from Natural Earth (public domain). Not for navigation. Something wrong or missing? Write to contact@greatamericanlakes.com.