Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Collision
SS W. C. Franz
A lake freighter built in 1901, wrecked on Lake Huron. The record: “Sank in a collision on Lake Huron.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- Detroit Shipbuilding Company, Wyandotte, Michigan
- Launched
- 20 April 1901
- Length
- 346 ft (105 m)
- Beam
- 48 ft (15 m)
- Tonnage
- 3748 GRT; 2943 NRT
- Propulsion
- 1 × propeller
- Fate
- Sank in a collision on Lake Huron
- Lake
- Lake Huron
- Coordinates
- 44.6479° N, 82.9065° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Huron wrecks
- SS Monrovia18 mi · lost 1959
- PS Keystone State19 mi
- Corsican20 mi · lost 1893
- Typo25 mi · lost 1899
- SS Clifton26 mi · lost 1924
- SS Daniel J. Morrell27 mi · lost 1966
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Harrisville19 mi
- Harrisville State Park19 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Sturgeon Point Light18 mi
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS W. C. Franz, 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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