The vessel
Show on the chart- Type
- Twin steam propeller/sandsucker
- Also known as
- 1917 as Rosamod Billet finished 1918 at Troiis River, Quebec by Tidewater Ship Building Launched as the freighter T.P. Phelan
- Built
- 1917-1918
- Size
- 241' x 41' x 14'
- Gross tonnage
- 1322
- Net tonnage
- 803
- Owner
- Gravel Products Corporation Buffalo, New York
- Cargo
- Silt/Sand
- PHMC site number
- 36ER0334 ( http://www.phmc.pa.gov/Preservation/ ) Port Side Working 2D Photo Mosaic: The Story of the Loss: Sunk Sandsucker Howard S. Gerken By James Donahue When we first heard the report of the 1926 sinking of the steamship Howard S. Gerken on Lake Erie, our first question was: What ship is this? That may be because this modest 241-foot vessel was a literal chameleon during the brief years it sp
Position 42.27358, -80.05600 (as charted by RSC, from the Regional Science Consortium shipwreck map)
Recorded location: 42.27358, -80.056 7.74 miles @ 11 degrees off Erie can buoy 79' depth