Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Foundered
SS Russia
A package freighter built in 1872, lost on Lake Huron in 1909. The record: “Sank off DeTour Village, Michigan.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Package freighter
- Builder
- King Iron Works of Buffalo, New York, Gibson & Craig subcontractor
- Launched
- August 20, 1872
- Completed
- August 26, 1872
- Length
- 246 ft (75 m)
- Beam
- 36 ft (11 m)
- Tonnage
- 1501.77 GRT; 1334.57 NRT
- Propulsion
- 2 × fixed pitch propellers
- Fate
- Sank off DeTour Village, Michigan
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 45.8623° N, 83.8395° W
The story
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The same year
Also lost in 1909
- SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2Erie · foundered
- SS Oscar T. FlintHuron · fire
- 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
- Persian19 mi
- Newell A. Eddy20 mi · lost 1893
- F. T. Barney26 mi
- SS Choctaw28 mi · lost 1915
- SS Ohio29 mi · lost 1894
- SS Etruria32 mi · lost 1905
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- De Tour Passage8.7 mi
- Maxton Bay14 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- DeTour Reef Light6.7 mi
- Pipe Island Light11 mi
- Martin Reef Light Station15 mi
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Russia (1872), 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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