Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Foundered
SS Kamloops
A package freighter – canaller built in 1924, lost on Lake Superior in 1927. The record: “Foundered off Isle Royale in western Lake Superior 7 December 1927.” The wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Package freighter – canaller
- Builder
- Furness Ship Building Company, Ltd., Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England, UK
- Completed
- 1924
- Length
- 250 ft (76 m)
- Beam
- 43 ft (13 m)
- Tonnage
- 2402 gross; 1748 net
- Propulsion
- triple expansion steam
- Crew
- 22
- Fate
- Foundered off Isle Royale in western Lake Superior 7 December 1927
- Wreck site
- Kamloops Point, Isle Royale National Park, Michigan, U.S.
- National Register
- Listed 14 June 1984 · ref. 84001769
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 48.0850° N, 88.7647° W
The same decade
Superior losses of the 1920s
- City of Bangor1926 · stranded
- Lambton1922 · foundered
- Miztec1921 · foundered
- SS America1928 · foundered
- SS Glenlyon1924 · foundered
- SS Harriet B.1922 · foundered
- SS Superior City1920 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- SS Glenlyon9.2 mi · lost 1924
- SS Algoma11 mi
- SS Chester A. Congdon14 mi
- SS Scotiadoc14 mi · lost 1953
- SS Emperor15 mi
- SS Monarch17 mi · lost 1906
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Kamloops, 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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