Shipwreck · Lake Superior
French minesweepers Inkerman and Cerisoles
A navarin-class minesweeper built in 1918, lost on Lake Superior in 1918. The record: “Disappeared in a storm on 24 November 1918.”
Lost on Lake Superior
1918
French minesweepers Inkerman and Cerisoles
Navarin-class minesweeper · built 1918 · lost 1918
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Navarin-class minesweeper
- Builder
- Canadian Car and Foundry of Fort William, Ontario, Canada
- Launched
- 1918
- Length
- 135 ft (41 m)
- Beam
- 23 ft (7 m)
- Fate
- Disappeared in a storm on 24 November 1918
- Lake
- Lake Superior
The story
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The same decade
Superior losses of the 1910s
- Gunilda1911 · foundered
- SS Benjamin Noble1914 · foundered
- SS Henry B. Smith1913 · foundered
- SS Leafield1913 · foundered
- SS Myron1919 · foundered
- SS Onoko1915 · foundered
- SS William C. Moreland1910
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article French minesweepers Inkerman and Cerisoles, 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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