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SS Kaliyuga
A lake freighter built in 1887, lost on Lake Huron in 1905. The record: “Lost in a storm on October 19/20, 1905, with 16 crew members (1 absentee).”
Lost on Lake Huron
1905
SS Kaliyuga
Lake freighter · built 1887 · lost 1905
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- Simon Langell of St. Clair, Michigan
- Completed
- 1887
- Length
- 270 ft (82 m)
- Beam
- 40 ft (12 m)
- Tonnage
- 1941 gross tons
- Crew
- 17
- Fate
- Lost in a storm on October 19/20, 1905, with 16 crew members (1 absentee)
- Lake
- Lake Huron
The same year
Also lost in 1905
- SS William EdenbornErie · foundered
- MinnedosaHuron · foundered
- SS EtruriaHuron · collision
- R. J. HackettMichigan · foundered
- SS AppomattoxMichigan · stranded
- SS EastlandMichigan
- AmboySuperior · stranded
- MadeiraSuperior · foundered
- NoquebaySuperior · fire
- SevonaSuperior · foundered
The same decade
Huron losses of the 1900s
- Metamora1907 · stranded
- SS New Orleans1906
- SS Oscar T. Flint1909 · fire
- SS Russia1909 · foundered
- SS W. P. Thew1909 · collision
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Kaliyuga, 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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