Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Collision
Sagamore
A steamer, whaleback, barge built in 1892, lost on Lake Superior in 1901. The record: “Sank near Iroquois Point, Whitefish Bay 29 July 1901 in a collision with the Northern Queen.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Steamer, whaleback, barge
- Builder
- American Steel Barge Company
- Completed
- 1892
- Length
- 308 ft (94 m)
- Beam
- 38 ft (12 m)
- Tonnage
- 1601 GRT; 1557 NRT
- Fate
- Sank near Iroquois Point, Whitefish Bay 29 July 1901 in a collision with the Northern Queen
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 46.5181° N, 84.6322° W
The story
Read the full history
The same year
Also lost in 1901
- SS FedoraSuperior · fire
- SS HudsonSuperior · foundered
- SS M.M. DrakeSuperior · foundered
The same decade
Superior losses of the 1900s
- Amboy1905 · stranded
- Madeira1905 · foundered
- Moonlight1903
- Niagara (1904)1904
- Noquebay1905 · fire
- Ottawa1909 · fire
- Sevona1905 · foundered
- SS Bannockburn1902 · foundered
- SS Cyprus1907 · foundered
- SS D. M. Clemson1908 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- SS Samuel Mather5.1 mi · lost 1891
- SS Comet18 mi · lost 1875
- SS Superior City18 mi · lost 1920
- SS John B. Cowle22 mi · lost 1909
- SS Vienna22 mi · lost 1892
- SS Myron27 mi · lost 1919
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Brimley State Park7.8 mi
- Tahquamenon Falls Bay20 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Point Iroquois Light2.3 mi
On shore
Worth the stop
- Tahquamenon Falls and Whitefish Point23 mi · park
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Sagamore (barge), 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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