Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Collision
SS Monrovia
A cargo ship built in 1943, lost on Lake Huron in 1959. The record: “Rammed and sunk.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Cargo ship
- Builder
- Lithgows Ltd
- Launched
- 8 April 1943
- Completed
- May 1943
- Length
- 432 ft (132 m)
- Beam
- 56 ft (17 m)
- Tonnage
- 7,067 GRT; 4,808 NRT; 9,950 DWT
- Propulsion
- Triple expansion steam engine, single screw propeller
- Fate
- Rammed and sunk
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 44.5903° N, 82.5533° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- SS Clifton16 mi · lost 1924
- SS W. C. Franz18 mi
- PS Keystone State23 mi
- SS Daniel J. Morrell26 mi · lost 1966
- Corsican33 mi · lost 1893
- Typo36 mi · lost 1899
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Monrovia, 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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