Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Foundered
SS James Gayley
A lake freighter built in 1902, wrecked on Lake Superior. The record: “Sank on Lake Superior.”
Lost on Lake Superior
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SS James Gayley
Lake freighter · built 1902
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- American Ship Building Company, Cleveland, Ohio
- Launched
- 29 March 1902
- Length
- 436 ft (133 m)
- Beam
- 50 ft (15 m)
- Tonnage
- 4,777 GRT; 3,359 NRT
- Propulsion
- 1 × propeller
- Crew
- 23
- Fate
- Sank on Lake Superior
- Lake
- Lake Superior
The story
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Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS James Gayley, 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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