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SS Bannockburn
A lake freighter built in 1893, lost on Lake Superior in 1902. The record: “Lost 1902.”
Lost on Lake Superior
1902
SS Bannockburn
Lake freighter · built 1893 · lost 1902
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- Sir Raylton Dixon & Company, Middlesbrough, England
- Launched
- 1893
- Length
- 245 ft (75 m)
- Beam
- 40 ft (12 m)
- Tonnage
- 1,620 GRT; 1,035 NRT
- Propulsion
- One propeller
- Crew
- 20
- Fate
- Lost 1902
- Lake
- Lake Superior
The same year
Also lost in 1902
- SS Robert WallaceSuperior · foundered
- Thomas WilsonSuperior · collision
The same decade
Superior losses of the 1900s
- Amboy1905 · stranded
- Madeira1905 · foundered
- Moonlight1903
- Niagara (1904)1904
- Noquebay1905 · fire
- Ottawa1909 · fire
- Sagamore1901 · collision
- Sevona1905 · foundered
- SS Cyprus1907 · foundered
- SS D. M. Clemson1908 · foundered
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Bannockburn, 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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