Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Cyprus OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 204527 DATE OF LOSS: 11 October 1907 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Superior, about 8 miles off Deer Park RIG TYPE: Propeller, bulk freight HULL TYPE: Steel BUILDER: American Shipbuilding Co., Loran, OH, 1907 OWNER(S): Lackawana Steamship Co. MASTER: Capt. F. B. Huyck TONNAGE: 4,900 gt DIMENSIONS: 420 x 52 x 28 CASUALTIES: 22 SURVIVORS: 1 1 - Second Mate Charles G. Pitz CYPRUS was just twenty-five days old, and only on her second voyage, when news of her loss shocked the marine world. CYPRUS was down bound from Superior, WI., loaded with 7,103 tons of iron ore in weather that was "rough" but not considered to be severe. Suddenly the new freighter took on a serious list and soon rolled over before diving to the bottom of Lake Superior. Only Charles Pitz, second mate, would survive the disaster. The wreckage of the CYPRUS was discovered about 460 feet beneath the surface in 2007 by a team with the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society while searching for the wreck of the D. M. Clemson. ======================================================================== Sources: Annual Report of the Steamship Inspection Service, 1908 Merchant Vessel List, 1908 (Losses) Plumb "History of the Navigation of the Great Lakes" Greenwood "Namesakes 1900-1909" Barry "Wrecks and Rescues of the Great Lakes" Bowen "Shipwrecks of the Lakes" Swayze, David D. - "SHIPWRECK!" - 1992 Toledo Blade, 10 September 2007 The Detroit News (AP), 27 August 2012