Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Collision
Northwestern
A two-masted wooden schooner built in 1847, lost on Lake Huron in 1850. The record: “Sank in Lake Huron after collision with Monticello, September 30, 1850.”
Lost on Lake Huron
1850
Northwestern
Two-masted wooden schooner · built 1847 · lost 1850
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Two-masted wooden schooner
- Builder
- Andrew Miller
- Launched
- 1847
- Length
- 115 ft (35 m)
- Tonnage
- 217.5 GRT
- Propulsion
- Sail
- Crew
- 8
- Fate
- Sank in Lake Huron after collision with Monticello, September 30, 1850
- Lake
- Lake Huron
The story
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Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Northwestern (schooner), 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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