Shipwreck · Lake Huron
SS New Orleans
A wooden bulk freighter built in 1885, lost on Lake Huron in 1906. The record: “Wrecked in Lake Huron June 30, 1906.”
Lost on Lake Huron
1906
SS New Orleans
Wooden bulk freighter · built 1885 · lost 1906
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Wooden bulk freighter
- Builder
- Morley & Hill
- Launched
- 1885
- Length
- 240 ft (73 m)
- Beam
- 38 ft (12 m)
- Tonnage
- 1457 GRT
- Propulsion
- Coal-fired boiler, compound engine (fore and aft)
- Fate
- Wrecked in Lake Huron June 30, 1906
- Lake
- Lake Huron
The same decade
Huron losses of the 1900s
- Metamora1907 · stranded
- Minnedosa1905 · foundered
- SS Etruria1905 · collision
- SS Kaliyuga1905 · foundered
- 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 SS New Orleans, 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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