Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Collision
SS John Mitchell
A lake freighter built in 1906, wrecked on Lake Superior. The record: “Sank on Lake Superior after a collision with William Henry Mack.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- Great Lakes Engineering Works of St. Clair, Michigan
- Launched
- November 28, 1906
- Completed
- 1907
- Length
- 440 ft (134 m)
- Beam
- 52 ft (16 m)
- Tonnage
- 4468 GRT; 3246 NRT
- Propulsion
- 1 × fixed pitch propeller
- Fate
- Sank on Lake Superior after a collision with William Henry Mack
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 46.8342° N, 85.0802° W
The story
Read the full history
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- John M. Osborn2.2 mi · lost 1884
- Miztec2.3 mi · lost 1921
- SS Myron3.1 mi · lost 1919
- SS M.M. Drake4.1 mi · lost 1901
- SS Vienna8.4 mi · lost 1892
- SS John B. Cowle8.5 mi · lost 1909
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Whitefish Point Harbor7.4 mi
- Little Lake Harbor16 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Whitefish Point Light7.3 mi
- Crisp Point Light10 mi
On shore
Worth the stop
- Tahquamenon Falls and Whitefish Point7.3 mi · park
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS John Mitchell (1906), 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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