Shipwreck · Lake Huron
MV Nordmeer
A steel ocean general cargo freighter built in 1954, lost on Lake Huron in 1966. The record: “Wrecked in Lake Huron on November 19, 1966.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Steel ocean general cargo freighter
- Builder
- Flensburger Schiffs Gesellshaft, Flensburg, West Germany
- Launched
- 1954
- Length
- 471 ft (144 m)
- Beam
- 60 ft (18 m)
- Tonnage
- 8683 GRT
- Propulsion
- Diesel engine
- Crew
- 45
- Fate
- Wrecked in Lake Huron on November 19, 1966
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 45.1360° N, 83.1598° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- SS D. M. Wilson5.0 mi
- SS D. R. Hanna5.1 mi · lost 1919
- SS W. P. Thew6.3 mi · lost 1909
- PS New Orleans7.5 mi · lost 1849
- SS Isaac M. Scott7.6 mi · lost 1913
- Defiance8.9 mi · lost 1854
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Rockport12 mi
- North Riverfront Park14 mi
- Alpena Municipal Marina14 mi
- Snug Harbor20 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Thunder Bay Island Light7.0 mi
- Middle Island Light8.8 mi
- Alpena Light14 mi
On shore
Worth the stop
- Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary14 mi · park
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article MV Nordmeer, 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.
Chart shoreline generalized from Natural Earth (public domain). Not for navigation. Something wrong or missing? Write to contact@greatamericanlakes.com.