Shipwreck · Lake Michigan · Foundered
Equinox
A bulk carrier built in 1857, lost on Lake Michigan in 1875. The record: “Sank (1875).”
Lost on Lake Michigan
1875
Equinox
Bulk carrier · built 1857 · lost 1875
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Bulk carrier
- Builder
- R. N. Jones
- Launched
- 1857
- Length
- 184 ft (56 m)
- Beam
- 31 ft (9 m)
- Tonnage
- 620 ton
- Fate
- Sank (1875)
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
The same year
Also lost in 1875
- Cornelia B. WindiateHuron · foundered
- SS MerchantMichigan
- SS CometSuperior · foundered
The same decade
Michigan losses of the 1870s
- Grace A. Channon1877 · collision
- Lizzie Throop1873 · foundered
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Equinox (1857), 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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