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T.H. Camp

A tugboat built in 1876, lost on Lake Superior in 1900. The record: “Sank November 16, 1900.”

The vessel

On the record

Type
Tugboat
Launched
1876
Length
65 ft (20 m)
Beam
28 ft (9 m)
Tonnage
58 gross tons
Fate
Sank November 16, 1900

The same decade

Superior losses of the 1900s

Source

Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article T.H. Camp (shipwreck), 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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