SS Iosco
Iosco prior to her sinking
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Iosco |
Namesake | Iosco County, Michigan |
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Port of registry | United States, Rockport, Ohio |
Builder | F.W. Wheeler & Company, West Bay City, Michigan |
Yard number | 80 |
Launched | April 25, 1891 |
Completed | 1891 |
In service | May 11, 1891 |
Out of service | September 2, 1905 |
Identification | U.S. Registry #100484 |
Fate | Lost with all hands off Huron Island, Lake Superior |
General characteristics | |
Type | Lake freighter |
Tonnage | |
Length | 312 feet (95 m) LOA[2] 291 ft (89 m) LBP[1] |
Beam | 41 feet (12 m)[1] |
Height | 20 feet (6.1 m)[1] |
Installed power | 2 × Scotch marine boilers |
Propulsion |
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Crew | 19 |
Iosco (Official number 100484) was a Great Lakes freighter that served on the Great Lakes from her construction in 1891 to her foundering on September 2, 1905, when she and her tow, the schooner barge Olive Jeanette sank on Lake Superior.[2] While Olive Jeanette's wreck was located in over 300 feet (91 m) of water about eight miles (13 km) off the Huron Islands in the 1990s, Iosco's wreck has not yet been found.[4]
History
Iosco built by the
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Sinking
A September 6, 1905 issue of the Daily News Marshall, Michigan wrote an article about the foundering of Iosco and Olive Jeanette:
- "Pequaming, Mich., Sept. 6. -- The steamer Iosco will have to be added to the list of ships which foundered on Lake Superior in the great gale last Sunday, if the story told be the wreckage through which the tug D.L. Hebard passed Tuesday is well founded.
Life preservers marked Iosco and much other wreckage were found near Huron Island. The stem of a schooner had been thrown up on the end of Point Abbaye. The body of a sailor was found ten miles this side of Point Abbaye.[5]
It is now believed that both the Iosco and the schooner Olive Jeannette, which the Iosco had in tow, foundered in the vicinity where the wreckage had been sighted. It is certain that the Olive Jeanette is lost.[5] The lighthouse keeper on Huron Island plainly saw a big schooner founder four miles north of the light at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon. No steamer was in sight at the time. The schooner when first sighted had jib and foresail set, and was nearly waterlogged. Not long afterward the ship went down. The lighthouse keeper had no means of rendering assistance in the tremendous sea running.[5] The three days which have elapsed since the Olive Jeannette foundered would have brought news from the Iosco were that boat still afloat, but the owners at Cleveland last night gave up hope. The Iosco carried a crew of nineteen men. The Olive Jeannette carried a crew of seven men. The Iosco and Jeannette, laden with iron ore, left Duluth at noon last Thursday bound for Lake Erie. They were caught by the storm when halfway down Lake Superior, and must have been driven back with the hope of finding shelter among the islands east of Keweenaw Peninsula. The Iosco was commanded by Captain Nelson Gonyaw."[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Iosco". Bowling Green State University-Great Lakes Vessels Online Index. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
- ^ a b c "Iosco". Great Lakes Vessel Histories of Sterling Berry. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
- ^ "SS Iosco (+1905)". Wrecksite. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
- ^ a b c d e "L.R. Doty Shipwreck Discovery". Ship-Wreck.com (Brendon Baillod). Archived from the original on February 6, 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Huron Islands, MI (Lake Superior) Steamers Iosco and Olive Jeanette Lost, Sep 1905". GenDisasters. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
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