Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Foundered
PS Keystone State
A paddle steamer built in 1848, wrecked on Lake Huron. The record: “Sank in a storm on Lake Huron.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Paddle steamer
- Builder
- Bidwell & Banta of Buffalo, New York
- Launched
- November 11, 1848
- Completed
- May 1849
- Length
- 288 ft (88 m)
- Beam
- 35 ft (11 m)
- Tonnage
- 1354 GRT
- Propulsion
- 2 × paddle wheels almost 40 ft in diameter
- Fate
- Sank in a storm on Lake Huron
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 44.9017° N, 82.7394° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- Corsican15 mi · lost 1893
- Typo16 mi · lost 1899
- SS Isaac M. Scott19 mi · lost 1913
- SS W. C. Franz19 mi
- SS D. R. Hanna21 mi · lost 1919
- SS W. P. Thew23 mi · lost 1909
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article PS Keystone State, 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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