Shipwreck · Lake Superior
SS Mataafa
A vessel built in 1899, lost on Lake Superior in 1905. The record: “Wrecked 1905, raised and repaired; scrapped 1965.”
Lost on Lake Superior
1905
SS Mataafa
built 1899 · lost 1905
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Builder
- Cleveland Shipbuilding Company
- Completed
- 1899
- Length
- 430 ft (131 m)
- Beam
- 50 ft (15 m)
- Tonnage
- 4,840 GRT
- Crew
- 24 in 1905
- Fate
- Wrecked 1905, raised and repaired; scrapped 1965
- Lake
- Lake Superior
The same year
Also lost in 1905
- SS William EdenbornErie · foundered
- MinnedosaHuron · foundered
- SS EtruriaHuron · collision
- SS KaliyugaHuron · foundered
- R. J. HackettMichigan · foundered
- SS AppomattoxMichigan · stranded
- SS EastlandMichigan
- AmboySuperior · stranded
- MadeiraSuperior · foundered
- NoquebaySuperior · fire
The same decade
Superior losses of the 1900s
- Moonlight1903
- Niagara (1904)1904
- Ottawa1909 · fire
- Sagamore1901 · collision
- SS Bannockburn1902 · foundered
- SS Cyprus1907 · foundered
- SS D. M. Clemson1908 · foundered
- SS Fedora1901 · fire
- SS Hudson1901 · foundered
- SS John B. Cowle1909 · foundered
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Mataafa, 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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