SS Benjamin Noble
History | |
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Name: | SS Benjamin Noble |
Builder: | Detroit Shipbuilding Company |
Launched: | 1909 |
Fate: | Foundered April 29, 1914 off Knife River, Lake Superior |
General characteristics | |
Type: | canaller |
Displacement: | 1,481 long tons (1,505 t) |
Length: | 239 Feet |
Beam: | 40 ft (12 m) |
The SS Benjamin Noble was a lake freighter that operated on the Great Lakes. Built in 1909 by the Detroit Shipbuilding Company, she was 239 feet (73 m) in length and had a beam of 40 feet (12 m). She was built as a "canaller," a vessel designed for use in what were then the dimensions of the Welland Canal, but was converted by her owners for services in the open Great Lakes. Heavily-laden and top-heavy with a cargo of railroad rails, she sank in Lake Superior near Knife River, Minnesota, in April 1914 with the loss of all hands [1] in a storm. Of the estimated 16 crew members, only about the names of 10 are known.[2]
After more than 90 years as a ghost ship, the hulk of the Benjamin Noble was rediscovered in the autumn of 2004.[3] The wreck was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 as NRHP site #07000984.[4]
See also
- List of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Lake County, Minnesota
References
- ↑ Boyer, Dwight (1968). Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. pp. 28–39.
- ↑ GenDisasters Website
- ↑ "Mystery ship found". Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
- ↑ "Benjamin Noble (shipwreck)". National Park Service. Retrieved March 16, 2016.