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Minnedosa
A four masted schooner later converted to barge built in 1890, lost on Lake Huron in 1905. The record: “Sank October 20, 1905, Lake Huron in tow of the Westmount.”
Lost on Lake Huron
1905
Minnedosa
Four masted schooner later converted to barge · built 1890 · lost 1905
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Four masted schooner later converted to barge
- Builder
- Montreal Transportation Company, Kingston
- Completed
- 1890
- Length
- 250 ft (76 m)
- Beam
- 36 ft (11 m)
- Crew
- 12 (sail) 7 (barge)
- Fate
- Sank October 20, 1905, Lake Huron in tow of the Westmount.
- Lake
- Lake Huron
The story
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The same year
Also lost in 1905
- SS William EdenbornErie · foundered
- SS EtruriaHuron · collision
- SS KaliyugaHuron · foundered
- 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 Minnedosa (schooner barge), 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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