Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Stranded
City of Bangor
A freighter built in 1896, lost on Lake Superior in 1926. The record: “Stranded November 30, 1926 Keweenaw Peninsula, Lake Superior. Declared total loss; Hull scrapped on site 1942.”
Lost on Lake Superior
1926
City of Bangor
Freighter · built 1896 · lost 1926
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- freighter
- Builder
- Wheeler, F.W. & Co; West Bay City, Michigan
- Completed
- 1896
- Length
- 372 ft (113 m)
- Beam
- 45 ft (14 m)
- Tonnage
- 3690 gross 2976 net (1896); 4202 gross 3058 net (1904); 3994 gross 2847 net (1925)
- Propulsion
- Triple expansion steam
- Crew
- 30
- Fate
- Stranded November 30, 1926 Keweenaw Peninsula, Lake Superior. Declared total loss; Hull scrapped on site 1942
- Lake
- Lake Superior
The story
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The same year
Also lost in 1926
- SS Howard S. GerkenErie · foundered
- SS Nisbet GrammerOntario · collision
The same decade
Superior losses of the 1920s
- Lambton1922 · foundered
- Miztec1921 · foundered
- SS America1928 · foundered
- SS Glenlyon1924 · foundered
- SS Harriet B.1922 · foundered
- SS Kamloops1927 · foundered
- SS Superior City1920 · foundered
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article City of Bangor (ship), 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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