Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Collision
SS Vienna
A propeller, wooden steamer built in 1873, lost on Lake Superior in 1892. The record: “Sank in Whitefish Bay 17 September 1892 after she was rammed by the Nipigon.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Propeller, wooden steamer
- Builder
- Quale & Martin of Cleveland, Ohio
- Completed
- 1873
- Length
- 191 ft (58 m)
- Beam
- 34 ft (10 m)
- Tonnage
- 1005.79 GRT; 829.42 NRT
- Propulsion
- Propeller
- Fate
- Sank in Whitefish Bay 17 September 1892 after she was rammed by the Nipigon
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 46.7410° N, 84.9652° W
The story
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The same year
Also lost in 1892
- SS W.H. GilcherMichigan · foundered
- SS Western ReserveSuperior · foundered
The same decade
Superior losses of the 1890s
- Antelope1897 · foundered
- Mayflower1891 · foundered
- Samuel P. Ely1896
- SS Henry Chisholm1898 · foundered
- SS R. G. Stewart1899 · fire
- SS Samuel Mather1891 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- SS John B. Cowle0.0 mi · lost 1909
- SS Superior City4.5 mi · lost 1920
- SS Comet5.0 mi · lost 1875
- SS Myron5.5 mi · lost 1919
- Miztec6.7 mi · lost 1921
- SS M.M. Drake6.8 mi · lost 1901
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Whitefish Point Harbor1.4 mi
- Tahquamenon Falls Bay14 mi
- Little Lake Harbor19 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Whitefish Point Light2.1 mi
- Crisp Point Light14 mi
On shore
Worth the stop
- Tahquamenon Falls and Whitefish Point2.1 mi · park
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Vienna (1873), 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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