SS Horatio Hall
Passenger And Freight Steamer · United States · Lost 1909 · Cape Cod & Nantucket Shoals
A Portland-to-New York passenger steamer sank on the shoals off Chatham after a freighter tore into her side in thick fog.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Horatio Hall was a steel coastal steamer running between Portland, Maine, and New York for the Maine Steamship Company. On 10 March 1909, in dense fog in Pollock Rip Channel, she was rammed by the freighter H.F. Dimock. Her passengers and crew were evacuated safely before she sank on the shoal, and her hull broke apart within weeks.
Vessel
- 1898
- Not established
- Pennsylvania
- Steel
- 296 ft
- 46 ft
- 3167
- Steam, single screw
- Maine Steamship Company
Loss
- March 10, 1909
- Collision
- Pollock Rip Slue, off Chatham, Massachusetts
- Nantucket Sound
- Portland, Maine → New York
- General freight, about 400 tons
- 45
- 0
- Not established
The Wreck Today
- Not established
- Broken up by wave action within weeks of sinking
- Not established
- Not established
- Not established
Position
- 41.60° N 69.95° W
- Approximate position
- Chatham, Massachusetts
Evidence
Overall confidence: Documented (85/100)
Vessel specifications and account of the collision.
Kingston Daily Freeman (1909 archives, HRVH)
Contemporary wire reports on the collision and beaching.
