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Built in Cleveland, Ohio in 1905, the SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 was a train ferry built to transport railway cars across Lake Erie from Conneaut, Ohio, to Port Stanley, Ontario. She had a length of 338 feet (103 meters) and a beam of 54 feet (16 meters), and her gross register tonnage was 2,514.
Shipwrecks of the Ohio coast (4 P) Pages in category "Shipwrecks of Lake Erie" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
The PS Anthony Wayne (also known as Anthony B. Wayne or General Wayne) was an early wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship [A] that sank on April 28, 1850, in Lake Erie off the coast of Vermilion, Ohio, after two of her starboard side boilers exploded. The number of people on board the ship at the time of incident is estimated to be about 100.
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A possible shipwreck has been found after a blizzard in the midwest caused a seiche, which pushed water across Lake Erie from Ohio to New York. Low water levels caused by blizzard reveal potential ...
The SS Benjamin Noble was a steel hulled package freighter package freighter built in 1909, that went down with all hands in 1914, in mid-lake off Knife River, Minnesota. Her wreck was found half buried in 2004, in 365-feet of water. [9] [10] 6: Big Bay Sloop shipwreck (sloop) Big Bay Sloop shipwreck (sloop) January 14, 2009
The Argo is a tank barge that sank in Lake Erie on October 20, 1937. It was carrying nearly 200,000 gallons (4,762 barrels) of crude oil and benzol when it foundered in a storm off of Pelee Island. The Argo was not designed for open waters. In 2013 the wreck was assessed to be the Great Lakes shipwreck most likely to create an environmental ...
Yes, Lake Erie has its own version of the Loch Ness monster, with the first known spotting of the Lake Erie Bessie in 1793 near Sandusky. Some eagle-eyed hunters have spotted Bessie near Toledo.