Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Foundered
SS Glenlyon
A freighter built in 1893, lost on Lake Superior in 1924. The record: “Sunk off the shore of Isle Royale in Lake Superior.” The wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Freighter
- Builder
- F. W. Wheeler
- Launched
- February 4, 1893
- Length
- 328 ft (100 m)
- Beam
- 43 ft (13 m)
- Tonnage
- 3800 DWT
- Propulsion
- Triple expansion steam engine
- Fate
- Sunk off the shore of Isle Royale in Lake Superior
- Wreck site
- Glenlyon Shoals off Menagerie Island in Siskiwit Bay, Isle Royale National Park, Michigan
- National Register
- Listed June 14, 1984 · ref. 84001750
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 47.9522° N, 88.7481° W
The same decade
Superior losses of the 1920s
- City of Bangor1926 · stranded
- Lambton1922 · foundered
- Miztec1921 · foundered
- SS America1928 · foundered
- SS Harriet B.1922 · foundered
- SS Kamloops1927 · foundered
- SS Superior City1920 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- SS Kamloops9.2 mi · lost 1927
- SS Henry Steinbrenner14 mi · lost 1953
- SS Algoma15 mi
- SS Chester A. Congdon20 mi
- SS Emperor21 mi
- SS Monarch22 mi · lost 1906
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Glenlyon, 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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