Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Foundered
Gunilda
A yacht built in 1897, lost on Lake Superior in 1911. The record: “Sank off Rossport, Ontario.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Yacht
- Builder
- Ramage & Ferguson, Leith, Scotland
- Launched
- April 1, 1897
- Completed
- 1897
- Length
- 195 ft (59 m)
- Beam
- 25 ft (8 m)
- Tonnage
- 385 GRT; 158 NRT
- Propulsion
- Triple expansion steam engine
- Fate
- Sank off Rossport, Ontario
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 48.7842° N, 87.4222° W
The same decade
Superior losses of the 1910s
- French minesweepers Inkerman and Cerisoles1918
- SS Benjamin Noble1914 · foundered
- SS Henry B. Smith1913 · foundered
- SS Leafield1913 · foundered
- SS Myron1919 · foundered
- SS Onoko1915 · foundered
- SS William C. Moreland1910
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- SS Arlington25 mi · lost 1940
- Barge 11535 mi
- SS Monarch62 mi · lost 1906
- SS Emperor63 mi
- SS Chester A. Congdon65 mi
- SS Algoma69 mi
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Gunilda, 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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