Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Foundered
SS Henry Chisholm
A wooden freighter built in 1880, lost on Lake Superior in 1898. 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
- Wooden freighter
- Builder
- Thomas Quayle & Sons
- Launched
- August 28, 1880
- Length
- 265 ft (81 m)
- Beam
- 39 ft (12 m)
- Propulsion
- double expansion steam engine
- Fate
- Sunk off the shore of Isle Royale in Lake Superior
- Wreck site
- Near Rock of Ages Light, Isle Royale National Park, Michigan
- National Register
- Listed June 14, 1984 · ref. 84001752
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 47.8576° N, 89.3280° W
The same year
Also lost in 1898
- Barge 104Erie · foundered
- SS L.R. DotyMichigan · foundered
- St. PeterOntario · foundered
The same decade
Superior losses of the 1890s
- Antelope1897 · foundered
- Mayflower1891 · foundered
- Samuel P. Ely1896
- SS R. G. Stewart1899 · fire
- SS Samuel Mather1891 · foundered
- SS Vienna1892 · collision
- SS Western Reserve1892 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- PS Cumberland0.0 mi · lost 1877
- USS Puritan0.2 mi · lost 1933
- SS America5.5 mi · lost 1928
- SS Glenlyon28 mi · lost 1924
- SS Henry Steinbrenner28 mi · lost 1953
- SS Kamloops30 mi · lost 1927
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Henry Chisholm, 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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