Shipwreck · Lake Ontario · Fire
SS Noronic
A passenger ship built in 1913, lost on Lake Ontario in 1949. The record: “Destroyed by fire, September 17, 1949.”
Lost on Lake Ontario
1949
SS Noronic
Passenger ship · built 1913 · lost 1949
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Passenger ship
- Known as
- The Queen of the Lakes
- Builder
- Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co., Port Arthur
- Launched
- June 2, 1913
- Length
- 362 ft (110 m)
- Tonnage
- 6,095 GRT
- Propulsion
- 1 × 3-cylinder triple expansion engine, single shaft, 1 screw.
- Crew
- 200
- Fate
- Destroyed by fire, September 17, 1949
- Lake
- Lake Ontario
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Noronic, 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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