Champlain II
Passenger Steamboat · United States · Lost 1875 · Lake Champlain
A Lake Champlain side-wheel steamer wrecked on the rocks near Westport during a night run in 1875.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Champlain II was a wooden side-wheel steamer built in 1868 for the Champlain Transportation Company. On the night of 16 July 1875 she ran onto rocks along the New York shore near Westport. The hull was left fast and could not be saved, and machinery and fittings were taken out of her. Her remains are part of the documented steamboat archaeology of Lake Champlain.
Vessel
- 1868
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- Wood
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- Side-wheel steam
- Champlain Transportation Company
Loss
- July 16, 1875
- Navigational error
- Near Westport, New York, Lake Champlain
- Lake Champlain
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- Accounts differ on whether lives were lost in the stranding.
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The Wreck Today
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- Remains reported in shallow water along the New York shore.
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Position
- 44.16° N 73.43° W
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- Westport, New York
Position given for the Westport shore area; the wreck position is not surveyed in the sources reviewed.
Evidence
Overall confidence: Partially documented (58/100)
Whether lives were lost, and the extent of the surviving structure, are not settled in the sources reviewed.
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
Vessel history, ownership and the 1875 stranding.
Contemporary northern New York newspaper accounts, July 1875
Date and circumstances of the stranding.
