Photograph of SS Pewabic — Photograph by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

PEWABIC (propeller) Shipwreck Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

“SS Pewabic was a package freighter that served ports on the Upper Great Lakes. She was launched in October 1863, fitted out in the spring of 1864, and was in active service until she sank off Thunder Bay Island in Lake Huron on August 9, 1865, due to collision with her sister vessel.”
Wikipedia article SS Pewabic, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Alpena County · listed in 2016 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. Thunder Bay, 6.5 Miles SE of Thunder Bay Island, Lake Huron, Alpena Township
When was it listed? 2016-08-22
Category. site
National Register reference number. 14001096 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Thunder Bay Island Light Station	6.7 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14001096 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Alpena County	All 12 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.