Shipwreck · Lake Michigan · Collision
MV Prins Willem V
A general cargo ship built in 1943, lost on Lake Michigan in 1954. The record: “Sank following a collision on Lake Michigan October 14, 1954.”
Lost on Lake Michigan
1954
MV Prins Willem V
General cargo ship · built 1943 · lost 1954
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- General cargo ship
- Builder
- N.V. Scheepsbouwwerf & Machinefabriek "De Merwede" v/h Van Vliet & Co.
- Launched
- March 9, 1943
- Completed
- January 7, 1949
- Length
- 258 ft (79 m)
- Beam
- 42 ft (13 m)
- Tonnage
- 1567 GRT
- Propulsion
- Single screw
- Crew
- 30
- Fate
- Sank following a collision on Lake Michigan October 14, 1954
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
The story
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Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article MV Prins Willem V, 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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