GLOBE (1894, Bulk Freighter)

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Identification

Vessel name:: GLOBE
Also known as:: JAMES B. EADS
Year of Build:: 1894
Official Number:: 86307

Construction and Ownership

Built at:: Cleveland, OH
Vessel Type:: Bulk Freighter; Note: Double bottom ballast tanks, 3 watertight bulkheads, steam pumps.
Hull Materials:: Steel
Number of Decks:: 2
Hull Number:: 53
Builder Name:: Globe Iron Works
Original Owner and Location:: Globe Iron Works, Cleveland, OH.

Power

Number of Masts:: 2
Propulsion:: Screw
Engine Type:: Triple Expansion
# Cylinders:: 3
# Boilers:: 2
# Propellers:: 1
Propulsion Notes:: 24, 39 & 63 x 42", 1,300hp @ 85rpm engine. Two 15'4" x 11'6" scotch boilers, Marine Boiler Works, Toledo, OH.

Hull Dimensions

Length:: 330.4'
Beam:: 42'
Depth:: 24.3'
Tonnage (gross):: 2995.84
Tonnage (net):: 2278.96

Final Disposition

Final Location:: Port Weller, ONT dry dock.
Welland Canal
Date:: Jan 1967
How:: Dismantled.

History

Chronology:

1894, Sep 13 Launched.

1894, Oct 16 Enrolled Cleveland, OH.

1896 Chartered to Great Lakes Steamship Co, Buffalo, NY; ran Buffalo, NY - Cleveland, OH & Manitowoc, WI.

1898, Nov 28 Collision with steamer COLGATE, Duluth, MN.

1899, May 11 Owned Bessemer Steamship Co., Cleveland, OH; converted at Cleveland to bulk freighter, iron ore trade; 400.42 x 42.66 x 24.25', 3746 gross / 2970 net tons; renamed JAMES B. EADS.

1901 Owned Pittsburgh Steamship Co, Cleveland.

1915, Jun 7 Collision with freighter Chicago, St. clair River; received two new watertube boilers.

1920 Reconstructed, 2704 gross / 1610 net tons, 1 deck, arch construction.

1926 Owned Nassau Ship & Dredge Co., Chicago, IL.

1927 Owned Midland Steamships Ltd, James Playfair, manager, Midland, ONT; C153126.

1934 Owned Gordon C. Leitch, Toronto, ONT.

1935 Owned Norris Steamships Ltd., Toronto.

1940 Owned Upper Lakes & St. Lawrence Transportation Co, Ltd, Toronto.

1960 Owned Upper Lakes Shipping, Ltd, Toronto; diesel crane added.

1960, Sep 30 Collision with craneship WILLIAM H. DONNER, Toledo, OH; repaired Port Weller.

1962 Retired.

1963 Owned A. Newman & Co, St. Catharine's, ONT, for scrapping.