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SS Carl D. Bradley
A self-unloading lake freighter built in 1927, lost on Lake Michigan in 1958. The record: “Sank in a storm on November 18, 1958.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Self-unloading lake freighter
- Builder
- American Ship Building Company, Lorain, Ohio
- Launched
- April 9, 1927
- Completed
- mid-1927
- Length
- 639 ft (195 m)
- Beam
- 65 ft (20 m)
- Tonnage
- 10,028 GRT
- Crew
- 35
- Fate
- Sank in a storm on November 18, 1958
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
- Coordinates
- 45.5592° N, 85.9878° W
The story
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On the bottom nearby
Nearest Michigan wrecks
- SS Francisco Morazan40 mi · lost 1960
- SS Walter L. Frost40 mi · lost 1903
- SS Cayuga40 mi
- SS Jarvis Lord41 mi
- F. J. King59 mi
- R. J. Hackett60 mi · lost 1905
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Carl D. Bradley, 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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