Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Foundered
Sweepstakes
A schooner built in 1867, lost on Lake Huron in 1885. The record: “Sank at Big Tub Harbour in September 1885.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- schooner
- Builder
- Melancthon Simpson
- Completed
- 1867
- Length
- 119 ft (36 m)
- Beam
- 23 ft (7 m)
- Tonnage
- 218 GRT
- Fate
- Sank at Big Tub Harbour in September 1885
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 45.2553° N, 81.6806° W
The story
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The same decade
Huron losses of the 1880s
- Erie Belle1883
- SS Asia1882 · foundered
- SS Jane Miller1881 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- SS Manasoo48 mi · lost 1928
- PS Keystone State57 mi
- SS Monrovia63 mi · lost 1959
- Metamora65 mi · lost 1907
- SS Isaac M. Scott67 mi · lost 1913
- Typo69 mi · lost 1899
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Sweepstakes (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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