Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Fire
SS Fedora
A steam bulk freighter (steam screw) built in 1889, lost on Lake Superior in 1901. The record: “Destroyed by fire and beached off Red Cliff Bay, Lake Superior (September 20, 1901); machinery salvaged.”
Lost on Lake Superior
1901
SS Fedora
Steam bulk freighter (steam screw) · built 1889 · lost 1901
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Steam bulk freighter (steam screw)
- Builder
- Frank W. Wheeler Shipbuilding Company
- Launched
- 1889
- Length
- 282 ft (86 m)
- Beam
- 42 ft (13 m)
- Tonnage
- 1848 GRT
- Propulsion
- Triple expansion steam engine, single screw; two scotch boilers
- Crew
- 17 (all survived)
- Fate
- Destroyed by fire and beached off Red Cliff Bay, Lake Superior (September 20, 1901); machinery salvaged
- Lake
- Lake Superior
The same year
Also lost in 1901
- SagamoreSuperior · collision
- SS HudsonSuperior · foundered
- SS M.M. DrakeSuperior · foundered
The same decade
Superior losses of the 1900s
- Amboy1905 · stranded
- Madeira1905 · foundered
- Moonlight1903
- Niagara (1904)1904
- Noquebay1905 · fire
- Ottawa1909 · fire
- Sevona1905 · foundered
- SS Bannockburn1902 · foundered
- SS Cyprus1907 · foundered
- SS D. M. Clemson1908 · foundered
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Fedora, 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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