Built at:

South Chicago, IL

Vessel Type:

Package Freighter

Note: 3 watertight bulkheads, double-bottom water ballast system.

Hull Materials:

Steel

Number of Decks:

2

Hull Number:

27

Builder Name:

Chicago Shipbuilding Co.

Original Owner and Location:

Lower Lakes Transit Co., Fairport, OH.

Propulsion:

Screw

Engine Type:

Triple Expansion

# Cylinders:

3

# Boilers:

2

# Propellers:

1

Propulsion Notes:

17, 29 & 47 x 36", 700hp, 78rpm engine by Cleveland Shipbuilding Co, Cleveland, OH, 1897. 10.5 x 12', 170 pounds scotch boilers, Cleveland Shipbuilding Co, Cleveland, 1897.

Length:

238'

Beam:

42'

Depth:

26'

Tonnage (gross):

2029

Tonnage (net):

1221

Final Location:

Holland, MI.
Lake Michigan.

Date:

6 Dec 1936

How:

Stranded.

Final Cargo:

Pig iron.

Notes:

Bound Toledo, OH - Holland Grounded at mouth of harbor in gale, waves & ice broke her up following winter.

1898, Jun 3 Struck Minneapolis shoal, Green Bay, Lake Michigan; repaired.

1898, Sep 22 Aground Point Pelee, Lake Erie with coal & railroad iron.

1906, Jun 12 Collision with propeller MILWAUKEE at Buffalo; repaired.

1907 Owned Mutual Transit Co, Buffalo, NY.

1915 - 1922 To coast.

1915 Owned Shawmut Steamship Co, Boston, MA.

1916 Owned Empressa Navera Co, Havana, Cuba; renamed RAMON MARIMON.

1922 Back to the Lakes; owned Rutland-Lake Michigan Transit Co, Chicago, IL.

1929 Reconstructed with self-unloading conveyor, 1 desk, arch constraints; 238 x 42 x 26', 2029 gross tons, 1221 net tons.

1931 Owned Gartland Steamship Co, Chicago, IL.

1936, Dec 6 Stranded Holland, MI, Lake Michigan.

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie