Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Foundered
SS C. F. Curtis
A steam barge built in 1882, wrecked on Lake Superior. The record: “Sank in a storm on Lake Superior.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Steam barge
- Builder
- David Lester, Marine City, Michigan
- Launched
- 1882
- Length
- 174 ft (53 m)
- Beam
- 33 ft (10 m)
- Tonnage
- 532.42 GRT; 425.03 NRT
- Propulsion
- 1 × propeller
- Crew
- 14
- Fate
- Sank in a storm on Lake Superior
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 47.0363° N, 85.9047° W
The story
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On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- Barge 1299.3 mi
- SS Cyprus22 mi · lost 1907
- SS Edmund Fitzgerald38 mi · lost 1975
- John M. Osborn40 mi · lost 1884
- SS John Mitchell41 mi
- SS M.M. Drake42 mi · lost 1901
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS C. F. Curtis, 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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