Shipwreck · Lake Superior
Moonlight
A schooner, later converted to a tow barge built in 1874, lost on Lake Superior in 1903. The record: “Shipwrecked on September 13, 1903.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Schooner, later converted to a tow barge
- Builder
- Wolf and Davidson Company
- Launched
- 1874
- Length
- 206 ft (63 m)
- Tonnage
- 777 gross tons (738 net tons)
- Fate
- Shipwrecked on September 13, 1903
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 46.8323° N, 90.3784° W
The story
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The same year
Also lost in 1903
- SS Erie L. HackleyMichigan · foundered
- SS Walter L. FrostMichigan · stranded
- Tennie and LauraMichigan · foundered
- SS MarquetteSuperior · foundered
The same decade
Superior losses of the 1900s
- Amboy1905 · stranded
- Madeira1905 · foundered
- Niagara (1904)1904
- Noquebay1905 · fire
- Ottawa1909 · fire
- Sagamore1901 · collision
- Sevona1905 · foundered
- SS Bannockburn1902 · foundered
- SS Cyprus1907 · foundered
- SS D. M. Clemson1908 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- SS Marquette2.4 mi · lost 1903
- SS R. G. Stewart5.4 mi · lost 1899
- Noquebay10 mi · lost 1905
- SS Ira H. Owen14 mi · lost 1905
- Ottawa19 mi · lost 1909
- Lucerne20 mi · lost 1886
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Saxon Harbor Access 219 mi
- Saxon Harbor Access 119 mi
- Red Cliff19 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Gull Island Light6.0 mi
- Michigan Island Light6.2 mi
- Outer Island Light17 mi
On shore
Worth the stop
- Apostle Islands National Lakeshore16 mi · park
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Moonlight (ship), 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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