Shipwreck · Lake Michigan · Collision
SS Senator
A bulk freighter built in 1896, lost on Lake Michigan in 1929. The record: “Rammed by the freighter Marquette in heavy fog on Lake Michigan.” The wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Bulk freighter
- Launched
- June 20, 1896
- Completed
- 1896
- Length
- 410 ft (125 m)
- Beam
- 46 ft (14 m)
- Tonnage
- 4048.75 GRT; 3178.66 NRT
- Propulsion
- 1,450 hp triple expansion steam engine
- Fate
- Rammed by the freighter Marquette in heavy fog on Lake Michigan
- Wreck site
- Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
- National Register
- Listed April 12, 2016 · ref. 15000738
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
- Coordinates
- 43.3356° N, 87.5699° W
The same decade
Michigan losses of the 1920s
- Robert C. Pringle1922 · foundered
- Rosinco1928 · foundered
- SM UC-971921 · foundered
- SS Lakeland1924 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Michigan wrecks
- Tennie and Laura9.5 mi · lost 1903
- Northerner13 mi · lost 1868
- Niagara (1856)15 mi · lost 1856
- SS J. M. Allmendinger18 mi · lost 1895
- SS Milwaukee (1929)19 mi · lost 1929
- SS Atlanta19 mi · lost 1906
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
On the horizon
Nearest lights
On shore
Worth the stop
- Kohler-Andrae State Park24 mi · dunes
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Senator, 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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