Shipwreck · Lake Michigan · Foundered
SS Hippocampus
A passenger and package freighter built in 1867, wrecked on Lake Michigan. The record: “Sank in a storm on Lake Michigan.”
Lost on Lake Michigan
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SS Hippocampus
Passenger and package freighter · built 1867
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Passenger and package freighter
- Builder
- George Hanson, St. Joseph, Michigan
- Launched
- 16 July 1867
- Length
- 90 ft (27 m)
- Beam
- 17 ft (5 m)
- Tonnage
- 153 GRT
- Propulsion
- 1 × propeller
- Fate
- Sank in a storm on Lake Michigan
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Hippocampus, 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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