Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Fire
SS Messenger
A wooden steam barge built in 1866, lost on Lake Huron in 1890. The record: “Burned and sank off Rogers City, Michigan, November 11, 1890.”
Lost on Lake Huron
1890
SS Messenger
Wooden steam barge · built 1866 · lost 1890
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Wooden steam barge
- Builder
- E.M. Peck
- Launched
- 1866
- Length
- 136 ft (41 m)
- Beam
- 29 ft (9 m)
- Tonnage
- 288.58 GRT
- Propulsion
- Horizontal crosshead steam engine
- Fate
- Burned and sank off Rogers City, Michigan, November 11, 1890
- Lake
- Lake Huron
The story
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The same decade
Huron losses of the 1890s
- Corsican1893 · collision
- John Shaw1894 · foundered
- Newell A. Eddy1893 · foundered
- SS Florida1897 · collision
- SS Norman1895
- SS Ohio1894 · foundered
- Typo1899 · collision
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Messenger (1866), 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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