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SS D. M. Clemson
A lake freighter built in 1903, lost on Lake Superior in 1908. The record: “Sank in a storm on Lake Superior.”
Lost on Lake Superior
1908
SS D. M. Clemson
Lake freighter · built 1903 · lost 1908
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- Superior Shipbuilding Company, West Superior, Wisconsin
- Launched
- 3 July 1903
- Length
- 468 ft (143 m)
- Beam
- 52 ft (16 m)
- Tonnage
- 5531 GRT; 3991 NRT
- Propulsion
- 1 × propeller
- Crew
- 24
- Fate
- Sank in a storm on Lake Superior
- Lake
- Lake Superior
The story
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Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS D. M. Clemson (1903), 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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