Shipwreck · Lake Michigan · Foundered
SS William B. Davock
A conventional dry bulk lake freighter built in 1907, lost on Lake Michigan in 1940. The record: “Foundered off Little Sable Point Light on the Michigan side of Lake Michigan, November 11, 1940.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Conventional dry bulk lake freighter
- Builder
- Great Lakes Engineering Works; St. Clair, Michigan
- Completed
- 1907
- Length
- 420 ft (128 m)
- Beam
- 52 ft (16 m)
- Tonnage
- 4468
- Propulsion
- Single screw, steam reciprocating triple expansion engine
- Crew
- 32
- Fate
- Foundered off Little Sable Point Light on the Michigan side of Lake Michigan, November 11, 1940
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
- Coordinates
- 43.9667° N, 86.5833° W
The story
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On the bottom nearby
Nearest Michigan wrecks
- SS Anna C. Minch13 mi
- SS Novadoc19 mi · lost 1940
- SS Pere Marquette 1839 mi · lost 1910
- SS Vernon44 mi · lost 1887
- Gallinipper45 mi · lost 1851
- SS S. C. Baldwin46 mi · lost 1908
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Loomis Street6.1 mi
- Copeyon Park7.2 mi
- Pentwater15 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Ludington Light5.7 mi
- Big Sable Point Light7.1 mi
- Pentwater North Pierhead Light14 mi
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS William B. Davock, 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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