Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Collision
SS Prindoc
A lake freighter built in 1901, wrecked on Lake Superior. The record: “Sank in a collision on Lake Superior.”
Lost on Lake Superior
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SS Prindoc
Lake freighter · built 1901
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- West Bay City Shipbuilding Company, West Bay City, Michigan
- Launched
- 15 May 1901
- Completed
- 1901
- Length
- 370 ft (113 m)
- Beam
- 50 ft (15 m)
- Tonnage
- 3871 GRT; 2997 NRT
- Propulsion
- 1 × propeller
- Fate
- Sank in a collision on Lake Superior
- Lake
- Lake Superior
The story
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Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Prindoc (1901), 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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