Address Restricted, Knife River, Minnesota. County/parish: Lake.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 23, 1992. NRIS 92000845.
Part of Minnesota's Lake Superior Shipwrecks MPS (NRIS 64500286).
1 contributing structure.Also known as:
SS Onoko was an iron-hulled Great Lakes freighter. She was launched in 1882 in Cleveland, Ohio by the Globe shipbuilding firm, as its hull number #4, and sank on September 14, 1915, in Lake Superior near Knife River, Minnesota. According to the Minnesota Historical Society, Onoko is regarded as a prototype of the single-steel hulled Great Lakes bulk carrier, These vessels made possible the cheap transport of bulk cargoes such as iron ore, coal and limestone. Her wreckage still remains on the bottom of Lake Superior and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
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