--- description: In Cleveland's federal court last week, survivors of the S.S. Noronic disaster and relatives of the 119 victims who died when the Great Lakes excursion steamer burned at a Toronto dock in 1949... title: The Hemisphere: Noronic Settlement image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # The Hemisphere: Noronic Settlement by [TIME](/author/time/) Mar 10, 1952 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Mar 10, 1952 5:00 AM CUT In Cleveland’s federal court last week, survivors of the S.S. Noronic disaster and relatives of the 119 victims who died when the Great Lakes excursion steamer burned at a Toronto dock in 1949 were awarded $2,150,000\. It was the largest settlement ever made to passengers in a marine disaster. Only twelve of 575 claimants, who originally sued for nearly $19 million, rejected the offer made by Canada Steamship Lines Ltd. Still to be determined, after hearings, is the amount to be given each claimant. The biggest single slice of the settlement, $716,666, will be split among some 90 lawyers who prepared the suits. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6886903/the-hemisphere-noronic-settlement/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6886903/the-hemisphere-noronic-settlement/"},"headline":"The Hemisphere: Noronic Settlement","datePublished":"1952-03-10T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-19T16:55:22.617Z","description":"In Cleveland's federal court last week, survivors of the S.S. Noronic disaster and relatives of the 119 victims who died when the Great Lakes excursion steamer burned at a Toronto dock in 1949...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6886903/the-hemisphere-noronic-settlement/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6886903/the-hemisphere-noronic-settlement/","name":"The Hemisphere: Noronic Settlement"}}]}] ```