c. 1890
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | SS John B. Lyon |
Builder | Thomas Quayle & Sons |
Christened | 1881 |
Out of service | 12 September 1900 |
General characteristics | |
Type | steamer |
Tonnage | 1710 grt |
Installed power | 700 h.p. (rhp) |
Crew | 16 |
SS John B. Lyon was an 1881 built American wooden bulk carrier steamer. On 12 September 1900, during the Great Storm of 1900 the steamer with a cargo of 80,000 iron ore was sunk in a gale, the remnants of the hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas, on Lake Erie off Conneaut near Ashtabula, Ohio, a total loss. Nine crewmen were killed, seven people survived. [1] [2]