Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Foundered
John Shaw
A three-masted wooden schooner built in 1885, lost on Lake Huron in 1894. The record: “Foundered in Lake Huron November 13, 1894.”
Lost on Lake Huron
1894
John Shaw
Three-masted wooden schooner · built 1885 · lost 1894
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Three-masted wooden schooner
- Builder
- James Davidson
- Launched
- 1885
- Length
- 217 ft (66 m)
- Beam
- 39 ft (12 m)
- Tonnage
- 928 GRT
- Propulsion
- Sail (towed at time of sinking)
- Fate
- Foundered in Lake Huron November 13, 1894
- Lake
- Lake Huron
The story
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The same decade
Huron losses of the 1890s
- Corsican1893 · collision
- Newell A. Eddy1893 · foundered
- SS Florida1897 · collision
- SS Messenger1890 · fire
- SS Norman1895
- Typo1899 · collision
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article John Shaw (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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