Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Foundered
SS Henry Steinbrenner
A lake freighter Straight Deck built in 1901, lost on Lake Superior in 1953. The record: “Lost in a storm on May 11, 1953; wreck found September 2023.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter Straight Deck
- Builder
- Jenks Ship Building Co. Port Huron, Michigan
- Launched
- September 28, 1901
- Length
- 427 ft (130 m)
- Beam
- 50 ft (15 m)
- Tonnage
- 4719 tons
- Propulsion
- triple expansion engine; single fixed pitch propeller.
- Crew
- 30
- Fate
- Lost in a storm on May 11, 1953; wreck found September 2023
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 47.7440° N, 88.7500° W
The story
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On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- SS Glenlyon14 mi · lost 1924
- SS Kamloops24 mi · lost 1927
- SS America24 mi · lost 1928
- SS Hudson27 mi · lost 1901
- SS Algoma27 mi
- USS Puritan28 mi · lost 1933
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Henry Steinbrenner, 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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