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SS Western Reserve
A bulk carrier built in 1890, lost on Lake Superior in 1892. The record: “Sank, August 30, 1892.”
Lost on Lake Superior
1892
SS Western Reserve
Bulk carrier · built 1890 · lost 1892
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Bulk carrier
- Builder
- Cleveland Shipbuilding Co., Cleveland
- Launched
- August 20, 1890
- Length
- 300 ft (91 m)
- Beam
- 41 ft (12 m)
- Tonnage
- 2392.05 GRT; 1965.08 NRT; 3000 DWT
- Propulsion
- Cleveland Shipbuilding Co. 3-cylinder triple expansion
- Fate
- Sank, August 30, 1892
- Wreck site
- 60 miles from northwest Whitefish point
- Lake
- Lake Superior
The story
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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
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Western Reserve, 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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