Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Foundered
SS Manasoo
A passenger and package freighter built in 1888, lost on Lake Huron in 1928. The record: “Sank in a storm on Lake Huron.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Passenger and package freighter
- Builder
- William Hamilton & Company of Port Glasgow, Scotland
- Completed
- May 2, 1888
- Length
- 155 ft (47 m)
- Beam
- 24 ft (7 m)
- Tonnage
- 574 GRT (1888–1905); 529 GRT (1905–1928); 459 NRT (1888–1905); 234 NRT (1905–1928)
- Propulsion
- 2 × fixed pitch propellers
- Fate
- Sank in a storm on Lake Huron
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 44.8510° N, 80.8689° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- PS Waubuno39 mi · lost 1879
- Nancy48 mi · lost 1814
- Sweepstakes48 mi · lost 1885
- SS Midland City50 mi · lost 1955
- Metamora52 mi · lost 1907
- Erie Belle62 mi · lost 1883
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Manasoo, 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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