Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Scuttled
USCGC Mesquite
A mesquite built in 1942, lost on Lake Superior in 1989. The record: “Ran aground December 4, 1989; scuttled for underwater diving preserve 1990.”
Lost on Lake Superior
1989
USCGC Mesquite
Mesquite · built 1942 · lost 1989
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Mesquite
- Builder
- Marine Ironworks & Shipbuilding Corporation, Duluth, Minnesota
- Launched
- 14 November 1942
- Length
- 180 ft (55 m)
- Beam
- 37 ft (11 m)
- Propulsion
- 2 × Cooper-Bessemer GN8 diesel engines
- Fate
- Ran aground December 4, 1989; scuttled for underwater diving preserve 1990
- Lake
- Lake Superior
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article USCGC Mesquite, 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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