Lake Huron shipwrecks map
Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is shared on the north and east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south and west by the U.S. state of Michigan. The name of the lake is derived from early French explorers who named it for the indigenous people they knew as Huron (Wyandot) inhabiting the region.
10 wreck positions, coloured by era. Tap a dot for the wreck page. Positions may be approximate; not for navigation.
Quick answers
- How many shipwrecks are on this map in Lake Huron?
- 10 wrecks with a recorded position, lost between 1865 and 1966.
- What is the oldest Lake Huron wreck on this map?
- SS Pewabic, lost in 1865.
All 10 Lake Huron wrecks
In date order; wrecks with no recorded date are listed last.
- SS Pewabic 1865ship · Collision · United States
- F. T. Barney 1868schooner · Collision · United States
- Sport 1920tug · United States
- SS Cedarville 1965ship · Collision · United States
- MV Nordmeer 1966ship · Grounding or wreck on rocks · United States
- Defiance schooner · Collision · United States
- Kyle Spangler ship · United States
- Norman shipwreck · United States
- SS Choctaw shipwreck · United States
- SS Etruria lake freighter · Collision · United States
Other Great Lakes: Lake Superior (33) · Lake Michigan (45) · Lake Erie (2) · Lake Ontario (5). All Great Lakes shipwrecks →
Lake descriptions adapted from the Wikipedia article Lake Huron (revision 1380795818), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: first paragraph of the lead only, trimmed at sentence boundaries, pronunciation guides removed. No text added.
Wrecks are assigned to a lake from the Wikidata “located in or next to body of water” property where present, otherwise from the wreck position and Natural Earth lake outlines (public domain).