The vessel
Show on the chart- Type
- Wooden Steam Screw
- Also known as
- City of St. Joseph (Built as)
- Built
- 1883 at Benton Harbor, Mich
- Size
- 152.0 Ft x 28.0 Ft. x 11.0 Ft
- Gross tonnage
- 302.61
- Net tonnage
- 240.56
- Owner
- William J. Jock et al Marine City, Mi
- Cargo
- Coal
- Date lost
- Oct 12, 1912
- Cause of loss
- Foundered, boiler blew up
- Lives lost
- 0
- PHMC site number
- 36ER0340 ( http://www.phmc.pa.gov/Preservation/ )
Position 42.24093, -79.93340 (as charted by RSC, from the Regional Science Consortium shipwreck map)
Recorded location: 42 14.456N, 79 56.004W Off 12 Mile Creek near North East in approximately 60 feet of water
The wreck today
Steam screw S.K. MARTIN. U. S. No. 126125. Of 302 tons gross. Built 1883. On 12, 1912, vessel foundered near Erie, Pa., with 12 persons on board. No lives were lost. Loss Reported of American Vessel List, U.S., 1913. Steam screw S.K. MARTIN.* U.S. No. 126125. Of 302.61 tons gross; 240.56 tons net. Built 1883 at Benton Harbor, Mich. Home port, Chicago, Ill. 152.0 x 28.0 x 11.0 * formerly steam scre