Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Foundered
SS Leafield
A vessel built in 1892, lost on Lake Superior in 1913. The record: “Sank 9 November 1913.”
Lost on Lake Superior
1913
SS Leafield
built 1892 · lost 1913
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Builder
- Strand Stepway Company, Sunderland, England
- Completed
- 1892
- Length
- 248 ft (76 m)
- Beam
- 35 ft (11 m)
- Tonnage
- 1,454 GRT
- Fate
- Sank 9 November 1913
- Lake
- Lake Superior
The same year
Also lost in 1913
- SS Charles S. PriceHuron · foundered
- SS Isaac M. ScottHuron · foundered
- SS James CarruthersHuron · foundered
- SS John A. McGeanHuron · foundered
- SS ReginaHuron · foundered
- SS WexfordHuron · foundered
- PlymouthMichigan · foundered
- SS Henry B. SmithSuperior · foundered
The same decade
Superior losses of the 1910s
- French minesweepers Inkerman and Cerisoles1918
- Gunilda1911 · foundered
- SS Benjamin Noble1914 · foundered
- SS Myron1919 · foundered
- SS Onoko1915 · foundered
- SS William C. Moreland1910
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Leafield, 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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