Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Foundered
USS Puritan
A commercial steamship built in 1901, lost on Lake Superior in 1933. The record: “Sunk 1933.” The wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Commercial steamship
- Builder
- Craig Shipbuilding; Toledo, Ohio
- Completed
- 1901
- Length
- 233 ft (71 m)
- Beam
- 41 ft (12 m)
- Fate
- Sunk 1933
- Wreck site
- Near Rock of Ages Light, Isle Royale National Park Michigan
- National Register
- Listed 14 June 1984 · ref. 84001749
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 47.8577° N, 89.3231° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- PS Cumberland0.2 mi · lost 1877
- SS Henry Chisholm0.2 mi · lost 1898
- SS America5.3 mi · lost 1928
- SS Glenlyon27 mi · lost 1924
- SS Henry Steinbrenner28 mi · lost 1953
- SS Kamloops30 mi · lost 1927
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article USS Puritan (ID-2222), 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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