Shipwreck · Lake Michigan
SS Francisco Morazan
A cargo ship built in 1922, lost on Lake Michigan in 1960. The record: “Wrecked.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Cargo ship
- Builder
- Deutsche Werft
- Launched
- June 1922
- Length
- 234 ft (71 m)
- Beam
- 36 ft (11 m)
- Tonnage
- 1,441 GRT; 747 NRT; 2,091DWT
- Propulsion
- Screw propeller (1922-35); Twin screw propellers (1935-60)
- Crew
- 19
- Fate
- Wrecked
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
- Coordinates
- 44.9966° N, 86.1417° W
The story
Read the full history
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Michigan wrecks
- SS Walter L. Frost0.1 mi · lost 1903
- SS Jarvis Lord7.8 mi
- SS Carl D. Bradley40 mi · lost 1958
- F. J. King42 mi
- SS Australasia51 mi · lost 1896
- SS Lakeland53 mi · lost 1924
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- South Manitou Island Lighthouse2.4 mi
- North Manitou Shoal Light Station9.2 mi
- North Manitou Island Light9.8 mi
On shore
Worth the stop
- Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore9.1 mi · dunes
- Point Betsie Lighthouse22 mi · lighthouse
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Francisco Morazan (1922), 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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