Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Collision
Barge 129
A whaleback barge built in 1893, wrecked on Lake Superior. The record: “Sank on Lake Superior after a collision.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Whaleback barge
- Builder
- American Steel Barge Company of Superior, Wisconsin
- Launched
- May 13, 1893
- Completed
- May 22, 1893
- Length
- 306 ft (93 m)
- Beam
- 36 ft (11 m)
- Tonnage
- 1,310 gross tons; 1,265 net tons
- Propulsion
- Towed by a steamship
- Fate
- Sank on Lake Superior after a collision
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 47.0862° N, 85.7215° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- SS C. F. Curtis9.3 mi
- SS Cyprus21 mi · lost 1907
- SS Edmund Fitzgerald29 mi · lost 1975
- John M. Osborn34 mi · lost 1884
- SS John Mitchell35 mi
- Miztec36 mi · lost 1921
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article 129 (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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