She was trapped in ice on Lake Superior November 30, 1926, and after multiple salvage attempts, Bangor was declared a total loss.

During the same storm, Thomas Maytham, which was carrying 20,000 tons of grain from Duluth to Toledo, Ohio, went aground on the other side of the peninsula.

[1] The next morning, after the winds had subsided, Bangor's crew managed to free the lifeboats, and by afternoon all the men had made it ashore.

[3] The area around the Keweenaw Peninsula was heavily forested and buried in about 4 ft (1.2 m) of snow,[4] so the cars were driven along the icy banks of the lake to Copper Harbor.

[7] The only remaining part of the Eagle Harbor Life Saving Station, the boathouse, is now a museum containing shipwreck memorabilia including one of the 1927 Chryslers from City of Bangor.