Shipwreck · Lake Huron
PS New Orleans
A wooden sidewheel steamer built in 1844, lost on Lake Huron in 1849. The record: “Wrecked in Lake Huron on June 13, 1849.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Wooden sidewheel steamer
- Builder
- Burton F. Goodson (Goodsell)
- Launched
- 1844
- Length
- 185 ft (56 m)
- Beam
- 26 ft (8 m)
- Tonnage
- 610 GRT
- Propulsion
- Sidewheel, crosshead engine
- Fate
- Wrecked in Lake Huron on June 13, 1849
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 45.0430° N, 83.2404° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- SS D. M. Wilson3.2 mi
- SS W. P. Thew4.2 mi · lost 1909
- SS Oscar T. Flint5.4 mi · lost 1909
- MV Nordmeer7.5 mi · lost 1966
- SS D. R. Hanna8.0 mi · lost 1919
- SS Isaac M. Scott9.9 mi · lost 1913
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Alpena Municipal Marina9.2 mi
- North Riverfront Park9.3 mi
- Snug Harbor12 mi
- Rockport13 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Thunder Bay Island Light2.3 mi
- Alpena Light9.0 mi
- Middle Island Light11 mi
On shore
Worth the stop
- Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary9.5 mi · park
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article PS 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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