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Wayzata Bay Wreck
A wooden model barge built in 1876, lost on Lake Superior in 1879. The record: “Sank in storm September 30, 1879.” The wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Lost on Lake Superior
1879
Wayzata Bay Wreck
Wooden model barge · built 1876 · lost 1879
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Wooden model barge
- Launched
- 1876
- Length
- 85 ft (26 m)
- Beam
- 19 ft (6 m)
- Fate
- Sank in storm September 30, 1879
- National Register
- Listed June 20, 2016 · ref. 16000386
- Lake
- Lake Superior
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Wayzata Bay Wreck, 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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