Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Foundered
SS Arlington
A lake freighter built in 1913, lost on Lake Superior in 1940. The record: “lost after breaking up in heavy seas May 1, 1940.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- Detroit Shipbuilding Company, Wyandotte, Michigan
- Launched
- 1913
- Length
- 244 ft (74 m)
- Beam
- 43 ft (13 m)
- Tonnage
- 1,170 Net Register Tonnage; 1,870 Gross Register Tonnage
- Crew
- 16
- Fate
- lost after breaking up in heavy seas May 1, 1940
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 48.4580° N, 87.6700° W
The same year
Also lost in 1940
- SS NovadocMichigan · foundered
- SS William B. DavockMichigan · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- Gunilda25 mi · lost 1911
- SS Monarch40 mi · lost 1906
- SS Emperor42 mi
- SS Chester A. Congdon43 mi
- SS Algoma46 mi
- Barge 11549 mi
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Arlington, 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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