Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Collision
Persian
A schooner built in 1855, wrecked on Lake Huron. The record: “Sank in a collision on Lake Huron.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Schooner
- Builder
- James Baker, Oswego, New York
- Completed
- 1855
- Length
- 128 ft (39 m)
- Beam
- 26 ft (8 m)
- Tonnage
- 345 GRT
- Propulsion
- 2 × masts
- Fate
- Sank in a collision on Lake Huron
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 45.6994° N, 84.1529° W
The story
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On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- Newell A. Eddy6.8 mi · lost 1893
- SS Russia19 mi · lost 1909
- F. T. Barney21 mi
- SS Cedarville26 mi · lost 1965
- SS Choctaw33 mi · lost 1915
- SS Ohio34 mi · lost 1894
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Hammond Bay7.5 mi
- Bois Blanc15 mi
- Hammond Point15 mi
- Cheboygan County16 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Spectacle Reef Light5.2 mi
- Poe Reef Light10 mi
- Fourteen Foot Shoal Light14 mi
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Persian (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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