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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.

References

1. "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1901". Retrieved 14 July 2019.
2. "John B. Lyon (+1900)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 21 April 2020.

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Shipwrecks	5 Jan: Ibex 31 Jan: Wolcott 11 Apr: RNLB Arab and RNLB James Stevens No. 4 30 Jun: Bremen, Main, Saale 27 Jun: William W. Ker 7 Jul: Idler 3 Aug: Fontana 11 Aug: Framée 12 Sep: John B. Lyon 22 Sep: Charkieh 24 Sep: Suffolk 16 Nov: T.H. Camp November (unknown date): USS Yosemite 16 Dec: SMS Gneisenau Unknown date: Copenhagen, Manchester
Other incidents	1 Jan: Prins van Oranje 4 Feb: HMS Repulse 6 Feb: Fazilka 30 Jun: 1900 Hoboken Docks fire, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse 12 Sep: Coptic 18 Sep: Minnehaha 3 Oct: Berkeley, Columbia 20 Oct: Kommandøren
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