Shipwreck · Lake Michigan · Collision
SS Milwaukee (b. 1868)
A canaller (1868–1883) built in 1868, wrecked on Lake Michigan. The record: “Sank in a collision on Lake Michigan.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Canaller (1868–1883); Steam barge (1883–1886)
- Builder
- A.C. Keating of Ogdensburg, New York
- Completed
- 1868
- Length
- 136 ft (41 m)
- Beam
- 26 ft (8 m)
- Propulsion
- 1 × fixed pitch propeller
- Fate
- Sank in a collision on Lake Michigan
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
- Coordinates
- 42.7348° N, 86.9025° W
The story
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On the bottom nearby
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- PS Alpena3.9 mi · lost 1880
- SS Michigan20 mi · lost 1885
- SS L.R. Doty25 mi · lost 1898
- SS John V. Moran32 mi · lost 1899
- SS Lac La Belle33 mi
- SS Ironsides37 mi
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Milwaukee (1868), 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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