Shipwreck · Lake Michigan · Foundered
SS Chicora
A passenger-cargo built in 1892, lost on Lake Michigan in 1895. The record: “Sunk on Lake Michigan January 1895.”
Lost on Lake Michigan
1895
SS Chicora
Passenger-cargo · built 1892 · lost 1895
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Passenger-cargo
- Builder
- Detroit Drydock Company
- Launched
- 26 June 1892
- Completed
- July 1892
- Length
- 200 ft (61 m)
- Beam
- 40 ft (12 m)
- Tonnage
- 1,123 GRT
- Propulsion
- Single screw
- Crew
- 21
- Fate
- Sunk on Lake Michigan January 1895
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
The same decade
Michigan losses of the 1890s
- Margaret A. Muir1893 · foundered
- SS Australasia1896 · fire
- SS John V. Moran1899 · foundered
- SS L.R. Doty1898 · foundered
- SS W.H. Gilcher1892 · foundered
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Chicora, 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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