Shipwreck · Lake Huron
Nancy
A vessel built in 1789, lost on Lake Huron in 1814. The record: “Commandeered for the Provincial Marine.”
The vessel
On the record
- Builder
- Richardson Forsythe and Company
- Launched
- 24 November 1789 at Detroit
- Length
- 80 ft (24 m)
- Beam
- 22 ft (7 m)
- Propulsion
- Sails
- Fate
- Commandeered for the Provincial Marine
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 44.5192° N, 80.0199° W
The story
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On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- SS Midland City18 mi · lost 1955
- PS Waubuno42 mi · lost 1879
- SS Manasoo48 mi · lost 1928
- Metamora72 mi · lost 1907
- Erie Belle85 mi · lost 1883
- Sweepstakes96 mi · lost 1885
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Nancy (1789 ship), 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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