Shipwreck · Lake Michigan · Foundered
SS Jarvis Lord
A lake freighter built in 1872, wrecked on Lake Michigan. The record: “Sank in the Manitou Passage.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- Morley & Hill of Marine City, Michigan
- Launched
- November 23, 1872
- Completed
- May 19, 1873
- Length
- 178 ft (54 m)
- Beam
- 33 ft (10 m)
- Tonnage
- 770.97 GRT; 641.06 NRT
- Propulsion
- 1 × fixed pitch propeller
- Crew
- 20
- Fate
- Sank in the Manitou Passage
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
- Coordinates
- 44.9631° N, 85.9897° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Michigan wrecks
- SS Francisco Morazan7.8 mi · lost 1960
- SS Walter L. Frost7.8 mi · lost 1903
- SS Carl D. Bradley41 mi · lost 1958
- F. J. King50 mi
- SS Australasia59 mi · lost 1896
- SS Lakeland60 mi · lost 1924
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Leland Township Marina12 mi
- Suttons Bay Marina17 mi
- West Arm18 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- North Manitou Shoal Light Station4.3 mi
- South Manitou Island Lighthouse5.9 mi
- North Manitou Island Light7.0 mi
On shore
Worth the stop
- Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore6.5 mi · dunes
- Point Betsie Lighthouse23 mi · lighthouse
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Jarvis Lord, 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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