Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Foundered
SS America
A steel freighter built in 1898, lost on Lake Superior in 1928. The record: “Sank 7 June 1928.” The wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- steel freighter
- Builder
- Detroit Dry Dock Company
- Launched
- 2 April 1898
- Length
- 183 ft (56 m)
- Beam
- 31 ft (9 m)
- Propulsion
- triple expansion steam engine
- Fate
- Sank 7 June 1928
- Wreck site
- North Gap of Washington Harbor, Isle Royale National Park, Michigan
- National Register
- Listed June 14, 1984 · ref. 84001708
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 47.8939° N, 89.2224° W
The same decade
Superior losses of the 1920s
- City of Bangor1926 · stranded
- Lambton1922 · foundered
- Miztec1921 · foundered
- SS Glenlyon1924 · foundered
- SS Harriet B.1922 · foundered
- SS Kamloops1927 · foundered
- SS Superior City1920 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- USS Puritan5.3 mi · lost 1933
- PS Cumberland5.5 mi · lost 1877
- SS Henry Chisholm5.5 mi · lost 1898
- SS Glenlyon22 mi · lost 1924
- SS Henry Steinbrenner24 mi · lost 1953
- SS Kamloops25 mi · lost 1927
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS America (1898), 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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