Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Collision
SS Scotiadoc
A lake freighter built in 1904, lost on Lake Superior in 1953. The record: “Rammed by freighter Burlington in heavy fog on June 20, 1953.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- American Ship Building Co., Cleveland, Ohio
- Launched
- May 14, 1904
- Length
- 424 ft (129 m)
- Beam
- 48 ft (15 m)
- Tonnage
- 4432 tons
- Crew
- 29
- Fate
- Rammed by freighter Burlington in heavy fog on June 20, 1953
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 48.2667° N, 88.9000° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- SS Kamloops14 mi · lost 1927
- SS Chester A. Congdon18 mi
- SS Emperor19 mi
- SS Algoma20 mi
- SS Monarch22 mi · lost 1906
- SS Glenlyon23 mi · lost 1924
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Scotiadoc, 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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