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SS Mataafa

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attempted to make it into the harbor alone. She made it about half-way between the twin concrete piers when a backwater surged out. Heavy water struck her stern, driving her prow down to the muddy bottom, and then slammed her stern against the north pier. Her rudder tore off and the water pulled her
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When the ship broke in two, twelve men were in the after portion. Three of the men struggled out to the forward part of the ship. The nine who remained aboard the after portion died of exposure during the night; one of the bodies in the after half had to be chopped out of solid ice. The fifteen men
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prow out toward the open lake, then smashed her stern against the south pier. She grounded in the shallow water outside the north pier, where she broke in two, her stern settling slowly into the water.
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when she was purchased in the same year by the Minnesota Steamship Company. After her 1905 wreck, she was raised and repaired, and served for another sixty years before being scrapped.
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in the fore half fared better; although rescue attempts were futile during the stormy night, the next day a small boat made it out, and all fifteen were taken off in two boatloads.
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At three-thirty in the afternoon of November 27, 1905, she was on her way out of Duluth, Minnesota, loaded with iron ore and towing the barge
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when the division was formed. Due to fog, she ran aground again, this time on Knife Island Reef in Lake Superior, on June 2, 1902.
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As she approached Duluth, it became clear that it was useless to try to bring both the steamer and the barge through the narrow
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occurred just outside Duluth, hundreds if not thousands of people were witnesses to the event. This made the wreck of
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and repaired. She continued to be accident-prone; On October 14, 1908, she was in a collision that sank
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for a few months, but quickly sold her to the Minnesota Steamship Company (MSC), which renamed her SS
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The Great Lakes Shipwreck File: Total Losses of Great Lakes Ships 1679 - 1999, by Dave Swayze, 2001
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Mariners Weather Log Volume 50 No. 3, December 2006, U.S. Department of Commerce and NOAA
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hit. After hours of fighting the storm, Humble decided to turn back to safe port in
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The "Great Storms" of 195 and 1913, Great Lakes Steamship Society, The 1905 "
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In 1901, she became a part of the original Pittsburgh Steamship Division of
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GenDisasters: Duluth, MN Steamer MATAAFA Disaster, Nov 1905, by Stu Beitler
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The Infamous Freighter Mataafa, The Mind of James Donahue, by James Donahue
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Chapters & Stories, Superior's Shipwrecks, Jim Cordes Publishing, 2009
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She was rebuilt due to wear in 1926, and in 1946 she was converted from a
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famous enough for the November 1905 storm to become known as the "
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wrecked outside Duluth harbor after the storm of November 28, 1905
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into the harbor, so Captain Humble gave the order to cut loose
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crew rowing out to rescue survivors from the wreck of SS
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of 50 feet (15 m). She was rated at 4,840 
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The U.S. Dept. of Commerce/NOAA page about the ship
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Beeson. 1911 374:off South East Shoal in 104:430 ft (130 m) 1543:August (unknown date): 1199:Imperator Aleksandr III 568:. Penn State University 534:, November 1905, pg.274 120:25 ft (7.6 m) 85:General characteristics 2275:Great Lakes freighters 1488:April (unknown date): 746:City of Rio de Janeiro 283: 176:, Minnesota, during a 112:50 ft (15 m) 405:Because the wreck of 356:Thunder Bay, Michigan 273: 187:in 1899, and renamed 1767:City of Medicine Hat 967:Jul (unknown date): 199:Built in 1899 as SS 245:Straits of Mackinac 213:gross register tons 180:. 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Index


GRT
hp
steamship
Great Lakes
bulk carrier
car carrier
Lake Superior
Duluth
storm that was named after her
Cleveland Shipbuilding Company
beam
gross register tons
horsepower
kW
Great Lakes
Straits of Mackinac
Chicago
Soo Locks
U.S. Steel

United States Life-Saving Service
Apostle Islands
nor'easter
Two Harbors
Duluth Ship Canal
refloated
SS Sacramento
Duluth, Minnesota
New York

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