Shipwreck · Lake Superior
SS Monarch
A passenger-package freighter built in 1890, lost on Lake Superior in 1906. The record: “Wrecked 6 December 1906.” The wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Passenger-package freighter
- Builder
- John Dyble
- Launched
- June 27, 1890
- Length
- 259 ft (79 m)
- Beam
- 35 ft (11 m)
- Propulsion
- triple expansion steam engine
- Fate
- Wrecked 6 December 1906
- Wreck site
- Palisade area, north side of Blake Point, Isle Royale National Park, Michigan
- National Register
- Listed June 14, 1984 · ref. 84001779
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 48.1889° N, 88.4342° W
The same decade
Superior losses of the 1900s
- Amboy1905 · stranded
- Madeira1905 · foundered
- Moonlight1903
- Niagara (1904)1904
- Noquebay1905 · fire
- Ottawa1909 · fire
- Sagamore1901 · collision
- Sevona1905 · foundered
- SS Bannockburn1902 · foundered
- SS Cyprus1907 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- SS Emperor2.8 mi
- SS Chester A. Congdon3.7 mi
- SS Algoma7.0 mi
- SS Kamloops17 mi · lost 1927
- SS Glenlyon22 mi · lost 1924
- SS Scotiadoc22 mi · lost 1953
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Monarch, 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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