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Steel freighter - collided wih steel steamer Phillip Minch and sank.  more »
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Steel freighter was ramed by another steel freighter and sank. Size: 253' x 44' x 21'  more »
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Wooden freighter sprung a leak and was run aground. Size: 273' x 41' x 23'  more »
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Wooden freighter carrying cargo of coal. Aground on Long Point where ship caught fire and burned to a total loss. Size: 272' x 41' x22'  more »
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Steel freighter carying cargo of coal sank in a storm. Size: 253' x 43' x 18'  more »
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Ruan aground due to high winds and foundered Size: 235' x 34' x 24'  more »
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Steel freighter ran ashore wih a full load of grain. Size: 296 ft x 40 ft x 21 ft  more »
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The package frreighter, Passaic, while carrying a load of lumber and towing several barges encountered heavy seas and foundered.  more »
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The storm of Dec 8, 1909 caused the Richardson to founder off of Waverly Shoal. Much of the wreck today is scattered on the bottom.  more »
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The Conestoga was built in Cleveland, Ohio in 1878.   The 253 foot freighter had an estimated 30,000 bushels of wheat on board when she caught fire and sank just outside Lock 28 on the Galop Canal. No lives lost.  Parts of the Conestoga have been salvaged  more »
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The 343 foot freighter, Eastcliffe Hall, was built in Montreal in 1954.  In 1970 this ship was carrying a load of pig iron and struck the concrete bouy at Chysler Shoal. shesank on the slope of the St Lawrence River.  NIne lives wre lost.     more »
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The Harvey J Kendall was built at Marine City, Michigan in 1892. Originally built as a team barge she was converted in 1917 to a self loading bulk freighter. In 1932 the Kendall was abandoned.  more »
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The Henry C. Daryaw was a 220 ft long steel freighter that sank in 1941 when she ran upon a shoal between American and Canadian Channels. The navigator did not see the shoal in a deep fog and Daryaw ran into it striking her bow. The Daryaw flipped upside...  more »
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Built in 1965 for the Algoma fleet, the Jodrey was a fairly new 623 foot Canadian self un-loader. On November 21 1974 while traveling upbound on the St. Lawrence River, the Jodrey struck a navigational buoy and quickly began taking on water. She ran up on...  more »
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