Shipwreck · Lake Michigan · Foundered
SS Pere Marquette 18
A train ferry built in 1902, lost on Lake Michigan in 1910. The record: “Flooded and sank on Lake Michigan with the loss of 29 lives.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Train ferry
- Builder
- American Ship Building Company
- Launched
- August 16, 1902
- Completed
- October 1, 1902
- Length
- 350 ft (107 m)
- Beam
- 56 ft (17 m)
- Tonnage
- 2909 GRT; 1722 NRT
- Propulsion
- 2 × 3000 hp triple expansion steam engines
- Fate
- Flooded and sank on Lake Michigan with the loss of 29 lives
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
- Coordinates
- 43.7417° N, 87.3044° W
The story
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On the bottom nearby
Nearest Michigan wrecks
- Robert C. Pringle13 mi · lost 1922
- Gallinipper15 mi · lost 1851
- SS Selah Chamberlain18 mi · lost 1886
- Home19 mi · lost 1858
- SS Atlanta27 mi · lost 1906
- SS Francis Hinton30 mi · lost 1909
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
On the horizon
Nearest lights
On shore
Worth the stop
- Kohler-Andrae State Park21 mi · dunes
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Pere Marquette 18, 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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