SS Cyprus
SS Cyprus
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| History | |
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| Name: | Cyprus |
| Owner: | Pickands-Mather of Cleveland, Ohio |
| Builder: | American Ship Building of Lorain, Ohio |
| Yard number: | 353 |
| Launched: | 1907 |
| Identification: | United States Registry #204527 |
| Fate: | Foundered and sunk during a storm on October 11, 1907. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Lake freighter |
| Length: | 420 ft (130 m) |
| Beam: | 52 ft (16 m) |
| Height: | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
SS Cyprus was a lake freighter that sank during a gale storm on Lake Superior on 11 October 1907. The ship went down in 460 feet (140 m) of water at 46°47′N 85°36′W / 46.79°N 85.60°WCoordinates: 46°47′N 85°36′W / 46.79°N 85.60°W, in United States waters about 8 miles (7 nm; 13 km) north of Deer Park in Luce County, Michigan. All but one of the 23 members of the crew perished.
Cyprus was built in Lorain, Ohio and launched 17 August 1907. She was a 420-foot-long (128 m), 15,000 ton (13,608 tonne) steel-hulled steamer. She was owned by the Lackawanna Steamship Company, (a subsidiary of Pickands Mather and Company) and based out of Fairport, Ohio, northeast of Cleveland, on Lake Erie. A marine trade publication described Cyprus as a very seaworthy vessel in an article published after her sinking.
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