Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Fire
SS Oscar T. Flint
A wooden steam barge / bulk freighter built in 1889, lost on Lake Huron in 1909. The record: “Caught fire and burned to the waterline; sank 25 November 1909.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Wooden steam barge / bulk freighter
- Builder
- Simon Langell
- Launched
- 1889
- Length
- 218 ft (66 m)
- Beam
- 37 ft (11 m)
- Tonnage
- 824 GRT (as commonly reported)
- Propulsion
- Fore-and-aft compound steam engine, single screw
- Fate
- Caught fire and burned to the waterline; sank 25 November 1909
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 45.0261° N, 83.3474° W
The same year
Also lost in 1909
- SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2Erie · foundered
- SS RussiaHuron · foundered
- SS W. P. ThewHuron · collision
- SS Francis HintonMichigan
- OttawaSuperior · fire
- SS John B. CowleSuperior · foundered
The same decade
Huron losses of the 1900s
- Metamora1907 · stranded
- Minnedosa1905 · foundered
- SS Etruria1905 · collision
- SS Kaliyuga1905 · foundered
- SS New Orleans1906
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- PS New Orleans5.4 mi · lost 1849
- SS D. M. Wilson8.5 mi
- SS W. P. Thew9.6 mi · lost 1909
- MV Nordmeer12 mi · lost 1966
- SS D. R. Hanna13 mi · lost 1919
- Defiance15 mi · lost 1854
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Alpena Municipal Marina4.6 mi
- North Riverfront Park4.7 mi
- Snug Harbor8.8 mi
- Rockport12 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Alpena Light4.4 mi
- Thunder Bay Island Light7.5 mi
- Middle Island Light12 mi
On shore
Worth the stop
- Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary4.8 mi · park
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Oscar T. Flint, 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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