Shipwreck · Lake Michigan
SS Atlanta
A steamship built in 1891, lost on Lake Michigan in 1906. The wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Steamship
- Builder
- Cleveland Dry Dock Company
- Launched
- April 25, 1891
- Completed
- May 21, 1891
- Length
- 172 ft (52 m)
- Beam
- 32 ft (10 m)
- Tonnage
- 1129.17 GRT; 958.06 NRT
- Wreck site
- 1.02 miles North Northeast of Amsterdam Park boat launch in Lake Michigan
- National Register
- Listed November 6, 2017 · ref. 10000178
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
- Coordinates
- 43.5709° N, 87.7827° W
The same decade
Michigan losses of the 1900s
- R. J. Hackett1905 · foundered
- SS Appomattox1905 · stranded
- SS Eastland1905
- SS Erie L. Hackley1903 · foundered
- SS Francis Hinton1909
- SS S. C. Baldwin1908 · foundered
- SS Walter L. Frost1903 · stranded
- Tennie and Laura1903 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Michigan wrecks
- Robert C. Pringle14 mi · lost 1922
- SS Selah Chamberlain15 mi · lost 1886
- Northerner18 mi · lost 1868
- SS Senator19 mi · lost 1929
- Tennie and Laura22 mi · lost 1903
- Niagara (1856)23 mi · lost 1856
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- South 8th Street Boat Launch13 mi
- Sheboygan River/Lake Michigan Access13 mi
- Deland Park Boat Ramp13 mi
- Port Washington - Lake Michigan13 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
On shore
Worth the stop
- Kohler-Andrae State Park7.4 mi · dunes
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Atlanta, 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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