Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Foundered
PS Lotta Bernard
A steam barge built in 1869, wrecked on Lake Superior. The record: “Sank on Lake Superior.”
Lost on Lake Superior
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PS Lotta Bernard
Steam barge · built 1869
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Steam barge
- Builder
- Lewis M. Jackson of Port Clinton, Ohio
- Launched
- September 9, 1869
- Completed
- 1869
- Length
- 125 ft (38 m)
- Beam
- 24 ft (7 m)
- Tonnage
- 147 GRT
- Propulsion
- 160 hp crosshead steam engine
- 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 PS Lotta Bernard, 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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