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SS W.H. Gilcher
A bulk carrier built in 1890, lost on Lake Michigan in 1892. The record: “Sank, 28 October 1892.”
Lost on Lake Michigan
1892
SS W.H. Gilcher
Bulk carrier · built 1890 · lost 1892
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Bulk carrier
- Builder
- Cleveland Shipbuilding Co., Cleveland
- Launched
- 18 December 1890
- Completed
- 12 May 1891
- Length
- 302 ft (92 m)
- Beam
- 41 ft (12 m)
- Tonnage
- 2414.64 GRT; 1986.70 NRT; 3000 DWT
- Propulsion
- Cleveland Shipbuilding Co. 3-cylinder triple expansion
- Fate
- Sank, 28 October 1892
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
The story
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The same decade
Michigan losses of the 1890s
- Margaret A. Muir1893 · foundered
- SS Australasia1896 · fire
- SS Chicora1895 · foundered
- SS J. M. Allmendinger1895
- SS John V. Moran1899 · foundered
- SS L.R. Doty1898 · foundered
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS W.H. Gilcher, 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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