Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Foundered
SS Algoma
A screw steamer built in 1883, wrecked on Lake Superior. The record: “Sank off the shore of Isle Royale in Lake Superior.” The wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Screw steamer
- Builder
- Aitken & Mansell
- Launched
- July 31, 1883
- Length
- 262 ft (80 m)
- Beam
- 38 ft (12 m)
- Tonnage
- 1773 GRT
- Fate
- Sank off the shore of Isle Royale in Lake Superior
- Wreck site
- Southeast shore of Mott Island, Isle Royale National Park, Michigan
- National Register
- Listed June 14, 1984 · ref. 84001699
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 48.1114° N, 88.5319° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- SS Chester A. Congdon5.7 mi
- SS Emperor6.4 mi
- SS Monarch7.0 mi · lost 1906
- SS Kamloops11 mi · lost 1927
- SS Glenlyon15 mi · lost 1924
- SS Scotiadoc20 mi · lost 1953
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Algoma, 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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