Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Stranded
Barge 115
A whaleback barge built in 1891, wrecked on Lake Superior. The record: “Stranded on Pic Island.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Whaleback barge
- Builder
- American Steel Barge Company of Superior, Wisconsin
- Launched
- August 15, 1891
- Completed
- August 25, 1891
- Length
- 256 ft (78 m)
- Beam
- 36 ft (11 m)
- Tonnage
- 1,169 gross tons; 1,110 net tons
- Propulsion
- Towed by a steamship
- Crew
- 8
- Fate
- Stranded on Pic Island
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 48.6981° N, 86.6547° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- Gunilda35 mi · lost 1911
- SS Arlington49 mi · lost 1940
- SS Monarch89 mi · lost 1906
- SS Emperor91 mi
- SS Chester A. Congdon92 mi
- SS Algoma95 mi
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article 115 (barge), 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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