John B. Lyon
Steam Screw · Lost 1900 · The Lake Erie Islands
The ore steamer John B. Lyon foundered off Conneaut in 1900 in the dying remnant of the Galveston hurricane.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Built at Cleveland in 1888 by Thomas Quayle, the 256-foot wooden bulk freighter John B. Lyon was carrying iron ore when the tail end of the West Indian hurricane that destroyed Galveston, Texas, swept Lake Erie on the night of September 11–12, 1900, with west winds near 60 miles an hour. She foundered about four miles north of Conneaut, and most of her crew were lost. Her boilers, chain and four-bladed propeller lie on the bottom.
Vessel
- 1888
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- Wood
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Loss
- September 12, 1900
- Storm
- About four miles north of Conneaut, Ohio
- Lake Erie
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- Iron ore
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- Capt. A.H. Fenghas
The Wreck Today
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Position
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- Conneaut, 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: John B. Lyon
Ship information, wreck site and story-of-loss sections read; quoted newspapers and books not independently inspected.
