City of Concord
Steam Screw · Lost 1906 · The Lake Erie Islands
The old wooden steamer City of Concord sank in a 1906 Lake Erie gale after flooding drowned her boiler fires; two lives were lost.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Built at Cleveland in 1868 as a passenger steamer, the 135-foot City of Concord later served as a wooden bulk freighter. Upbound with coal on September 27, 1906, near Point Pelee, she was struck by a gale and sprang a leak. Water drowned her fires, leaving her pumps without steam, and she sank. The crew reached shore in a tiny yawl with only one oar; the source records two lives lost. She had already survived a fire near Toledo in 1893.
Vessel
- 1868
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- Wood
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- Steam (screw)
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Loss
- September 27, 1906
- Storm
- Lake Erie near Point Pelee, off the Lake Erie islands
- Lake Erie
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- Coal
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- 2
- Capt. Charles McEcheran
The Wreck Today
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Position
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- Kelleys Island, Ohio
No pin: Ohio Sea Grant dive-slate positions are not used as wreck pins.
Evidence
Overall confidence: Partially documented (70/100)
Original newspaper accounts are quoted by the source and were not independently inspected.
Ohio Sea Grant — Shipwrecks and Maritime Tales of Lake Erie: City of Concord
Ship information, wreck site and story-of-loss sections read; quoted newspapers and books not independently inspected.
