CAMBRIA (1887, Bulk Freighter)

Description

Identification

Construction and Ownership

Built at:: Cleveland, OH
Vessel Type:: Bulk Freighter; Note: Double bottoms, 3 water tight bulkheads, electric lights; first 300' freighter on Lakes.
Additional vessel types:: Package Freighter; Passenger Steamer
Hull Materials:: Steel
Number of Decks:: 2
Hull Number:: 12
Builder Name:: Globe Iron Works
Original Owner and Location:: Mutual Transit Co, Rockport, OH.
Ownership Notes:: L.C. Hanna, President.

Power

Number of Masts:: 3
Propulsion:: Screw
Engine Type:: Triple Expansion
# Cylinders:: 3
# Boilers:: 2
# Propellers:: 1
Propulsion Notes:: 24, 38 & 61 x 42", Globe Iron Works, 1200hp at 78rpm or 120 lbs steam. Lakes' first triple-expansion engine. 12 x 141 scotch boiler, 150 pounds, Globe Iron works. Boilers: scotch 12d x 141 pressure 150 by Globe Iron Works.

Hull Dimensions

Final Disposition

History

Chronology:

1887 Feb 2 Launched, $130,000.

1887 Jun 1 Enroll Cleveland, OH.

1888, Jun 12 Bound Escanaba - Ashtabula, ran aground on 11' shoal, 2 miles southwest Peninsula Point Light, Lake Michigan.

1889, Sep 17 Returned to Cleveland from Astabula after 36 cargoes aggregating nearly 90,000 gross tons ore & record of close to 40,000 miles.

1899, Jul 27 Owned National Steel Co.

1901, Jun 3 Owned Pittsburgh Steamship Co, W. Virginia; in ore & coal trade.

1910, Jan 7 Reported owned Port Huron & Duluth Steamship Co. to be converted to package freighter.

1910 Rebuilt as passenger freighter at Milwaukee, WI; 2425 gross / 1813 net tons.

1910, Apr 21 Towed Milwaukee - Cleveland, OH to have cabin work finished at Globe yards.

1910, May 24 Renamed LAKELAND.

1910, Sep 20 Beached after collision with barge JOHN SMEATON, Little Rapids Cut, St.Mary's River.

1915 Running Duluth - Port Huron.

1917, Mar 8 Owned Northwestern Steamship Co., Port Huron.

1919, Jun 28 Owned Frank J Peterson, Cleveland, OH & George A. Collinge, Conneaut, OH.

1920, Jan 19 Owned Tri-State Steamship Co., Lake County, OH.

1924, Dec 11 Documents surrendered; lost / foundered, no lives lost.

Notes

From the Collection of:: C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:: Beesons Marine Directory; Donald V. Baut; Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy; Enrollments, U.S. National Archives; Great Lakes Register; H. G. Runge Collection, Milwaukee Public Library; Kenneth Thro; Lorne Joyce; Loudon G. Wilson; Newspaper Clippings; Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley; William MacDonald Collection, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit