Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Foundered
SS Ohio
A lake freighter built in 1875, lost on Lake Huron in 1894. The record: “Struck by the schooner Ironton, and sank on Lake Huron.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- John F. Squires of Huron, Ohio
- Launched
- April 1875
- Completed
- 1875
- Length
- 202 ft (62 m)
- Beam
- 35 ft (11 m)
- Tonnage
- 1101.81 GRT; 850 NRT
- Propulsion
- Low pressure condensing engine
- Crew
- 16
- Fate
- Struck by the schooner Ironton, and sank on Lake Huron
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 45.5131° N, 83.5037° W
The same decade
Huron losses of the 1890s
- Corsican1893 · collision
- Newell A. Eddy1893 · foundered
- SS Florida1897 · collision
- SS Messenger1890 · fire
- SS Norman1895
- Typo1899 · collision
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- SS Choctaw1.5 mi · lost 1915
- SS Etruria2.5 mi · lost 1905
- Kyle Spangler9.5 mi · lost 1860
- Cornelia B. Windiate16 mi · lost 1875
- F. T. Barney17 mi
- John J. Audubon17 mi · lost 1854
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Ohio (1875), 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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