Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Foundered
SS Cyprus
A lake freighter built in 1907, lost on Lake Superior in 1907. The record: “Foundered and sunk during a storm on October 11, 1907.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- American Ship Building Company of Lorain, Ohio
- Launched
- 17 August 1907
- Length
- 420 ft (128 m)
- Beam
- 52 ft (16 m)
- Fate
- Foundered and sunk during a storm on October 11, 1907.
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 46.7900° N, 85.6000° W
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 Bannockburn1902 · foundered
- SS D. M. Clemson1908 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- Barge 12921 mi
- SS C. F. Curtis22 mi
- SS M.M. Drake24 mi · lost 1901
- SS John Mitchell25 mi
- John M. Osborn25 mi · lost 1884
- Miztec25 mi · lost 1921
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Cyprus, 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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