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SS Iosco
A lake freighter built in 1891, lost on Lake Superior in 1905. The record: “Lost with all hands off Huron Island, Lake Superior.”
Lost on Lake Superior
1905
SS Iosco
Lake freighter · built 1891 · lost 1905
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- F.W. Wheeler & Company, West Bay City, Michigan
- Launched
- April 25, 1891
- Completed
- 1891
- Length
- 312 ft (95 m)
- Beam
- 41 ft (12 m)
- Tonnage
- 2051.8 GRT; 1706.83 NRT
- Propulsion
- 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engine; 1000 hp
- Crew
- 19
- Fate
- Lost with all hands off Huron Island, Lake Superior
- Lake
- Lake Superior
The same year
Also lost in 1905
- SS William EdenbornErie · foundered
- MinnedosaHuron · foundered
- SS EtruriaHuron · collision
- SS KaliyugaHuron · foundered
- R. J. HackettMichigan · foundered
- SS AppomattoxMichigan · stranded
- SS EastlandMichigan
- AmboySuperior · stranded
- MadeiraSuperior · foundered
- NoquebaySuperior · fire
The same decade
Superior losses of the 1900s
- Moonlight1903
- Niagara (1904)1904
- Ottawa1909 · fire
- Sagamore1901 · collision
- SS Bannockburn1902 · foundered
- SS Cyprus1907 · foundered
- SS D. M. Clemson1908 · foundered
- SS Fedora1901 · fire
- SS Hudson1901 · foundered
- SS John B. Cowle1909 · foundered
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Iosco, 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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