Shipwreck · Lake Michigan
MV Material Service
A powered barge built in 1929, wrecked on Lake Michigan. The wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Powered barge
- Builder
- Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company
- Launched
- 1929
- Length
- 240 ft (73 m)
- Beam
- 40 ft (12 m)
- Tonnage
- 1077 GRT; 736 NRT
- Wreck site
- Lake Michigan, northeast of Calumet Harbor
- National Register
- Listed March 25, 2014 · ref. 14000074
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
- Coordinates
- 41.7388° N, 87.5038° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Michigan wrecks
- SS Eastland12 mi · lost 1905
- PS Lady Elgin32 mi · lost 1860
- SS L.R. Doty57 mi · lost 1898
- SS Lac La Belle60 mi
- Rosinco62 mi · lost 1928
- SS Merchant70 mi · lost 1875
Straight-line distance between published positions.
On the horizon
Nearest lights
On shore
Worth the stop
- Chicago Lakefront Trail12 mi · drive
- Indiana Dunes National Park24 mi · dunes
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article MV Material Service, 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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