Shipwreck · Lake Superior
Niagara (1904)
A tugboat built in 1872, lost on Lake Superior in 1904. The record: “Wrecked June 4, 1904.” The wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Tugboat
- Builder
- Detroit Dry Dock Company
- Launched
- 1872
- Length
- 130 ft (40 m)
- Beam
- 25 ft (8 m)
- Tonnage
- 276.87 GRT; 183.05 NRT
- Fate
- Wrecked June 4, 1904
- Wreck site
- Lake County, Minnesota
- National Register
- Listed April 14, 1994 · ref. 94000344
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 46.9457° N, 91.7712° W
The same decade
Superior losses of the 1900s
- Amboy1905 · stranded
- Madeira1905 · foundered
- Moonlight1903
- 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 Benjamin Noble5.0 mi · lost 1914
- Samuel P. Ely6.3 mi · lost 1896
- SS Harriet B.6.6 mi · lost 1922
- SS Onoko6.9 mi · lost 1915
- SS Robert Wallace7.1 mi · lost 1902
- Thomas Friant15 mi
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Knife River Beach0.5 mi
- Knife River Marina and Harbor0.5 mi
- French River6.6 mi
- Two Harbors, Agate Bay boat launch6.9 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
On shore
Worth the stop
- North Shore Scenic Drive — Highway 617.1 mi · drive
- Gooseberry Falls State Park20 mi · park
- Split Rock Lighthouse26 mi · lighthouse
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Niagara (tug), 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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