Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Foundered
SS Emperor
A lake freighter built in 1910, wrecked on Lake Superior. The record: “Sank on Lake Superior.” The wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Known as
- The Pride of Canada
- Builder
- Collingwood Shipbuilding Company, Collingwood, Ontario
- Launched
- December 17, 1910
- Completed
- April 1911
- Length
- 525 ft (160 m)
- Beam
- 56 ft (17 m)
- Tonnage
- 7031 GRT; 5048 NRT
- Propulsion
- 1 × fixed pitch propeller
- Fate
- Sank on Lake Superior
- Wreck site
- North side of Canoe Rocks, on the northeast end of Isle Royale National Park, Michigan
- National Register
- Listed June 14, 1984 · ref. 84001748
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 48.2006° N, 88.4917° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- SS Chester A. Congdon1.2 mi
- SS Monarch2.8 mi · lost 1906
- SS Algoma6.4 mi
- SS Kamloops15 mi · lost 1927
- SS Scotiadoc19 mi · lost 1953
- SS Glenlyon21 mi · lost 1924
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Emperor, 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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