Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Fire
SS Midland City
A steamboat built in 1871, lost on Lake Huron in 1955. The record: “Grounded and burned as breakwater 1955.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Steamboat
- Launched
- 16 August 1871
- Completed
- August 1871
- Length
- 114 ft (35 m)
- Beam
- 19 ft (6 m)
- Tonnage
- 120–133 tons registered; 293 GRT
- Propulsion
- 13 ft sidewheels
- Fate
- Grounded and burned as breakwater 1955
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 44.7523° N, 79.8505° W
The story
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On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- Nancy18 mi · lost 1814
- PS Waubuno30 mi · lost 1879
- SS Manasoo50 mi · lost 1928
- Metamora60 mi · lost 1907
- Sweepstakes96 mi · lost 1885
- Erie Belle98 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 Midland City, 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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