Shipwreck · Lake Michigan · Fire
SS Phoenix
A wooden steamship built in 1845, lost on Lake Michigan in 1847. The record: “Burned to the waterline, 21 November 1847.”
Lost on Lake Michigan
1847
SS Phoenix
Wooden steamship · built 1845 · lost 1847
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Wooden steamship
- Completed
- 1845
- Length
- 140 ft (43 m)
- Beam
- 22 ft (7 m)
- Propulsion
- Steam-powered propellers
- Crew
- 25
- Fate
- Burned to the waterline, 21 November 1847
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
The story
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Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Phoenix (1845), 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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