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Plymouth
A cargo Steamer/Schooner barge built in 1854, lost on Lake Michigan in 1913. The record: “Sunk in Great Lakes Storm of 1913.”
Lost on Lake Michigan
1913
Plymouth
Cargo Steamer/Schooner barge · built 1854 · lost 1913
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Cargo Steamer/Schooner barge
- Builder
- Stephenson & Lafrinier
- Launched
- 7 March 1854
- Completed
- 8 May 1854
- Length
- 213 ft (65 m)
- Beam
- 32 ft (10 m)
- Tonnage
- 846 GRT
- Propulsion
- Screw propeller and 1 mast (converted in 1884 to 3 mast schooner)
- Crew
- 7
- Fate
- Sunk in Great Lakes Storm of 1913
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
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The same year
Also lost in 1913
- SS Charles S. PriceHuron · foundered
- SS Isaac M. ScottHuron · foundered
- SS James CarruthersHuron · foundered
- SS John A. McGeanHuron · foundered
- SS ReginaHuron · foundered
- SS WexfordHuron · foundered
- SS Henry B. SmithSuperior · foundered
- SS LeafieldSuperior · foundered
The same decade
Michigan losses of the 1910s
- Rouse Simmons1912 · foundered
- SS Pere Marquette 181910 · foundered
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Plymouth (schooner barge), 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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