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SS Jane Miller
A cargo Ship built in 1879, lost on Lake Huron in 1881. The record: “Lost in a storm on November 25, 1881 with 28 passengers and crew.”
Lost on Lake Huron
1881
SS Jane Miller
Cargo Ship · built 1879 · lost 1881
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Cargo Ship
- Builder
- Crop's shipyard in Little Current, ON
- Completed
- 1879
- Length
- 78 ft (24 m)
- Beam
- 18 ft (5 m)
- Tonnage
- 210 gross tons
- Crew
- 10
- Fate
- Lost in a storm on November 25, 1881 with 28 passengers and crew
- Lake
- Lake Huron
The same decade
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Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Jane Miller, 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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