HARVARD (1900, Bulk Freighter)

Gallery

Description

Comments (1)

Identification

Vessel name:: HARVARD
Year of Build:: 1900
Official Number:: 96507

Construction and Ownership

Built at:: Wyandotte, MI
Vessel Type:: Bulk Freighter
Hull Materials:: Steel
Number of Decks:: 1
Hull Number:: 134
Builder Name:: Detroit Ship Building Company
Original Owner and Location:: Pittsburgh Steamship Co., Cleveland, OH.

Power

Propulsion:: Screw
Engine Type:: Quadruple Expansion
# Cylinders:: 4
# Boilers:: 2
# Propellers:: 1
Propulsion Notes:: 16, 16.75, 41, 63 x 42", 1600hp, 77rpm, by Detroit Ship Building Company, 1900. 2 Babcock & Wilcox assisted draft water tube boilers built at Bayonne, New Jersey, 1900.

Hull Dimensions

Length:: 461'
Beam:: 50.2'
Depth:: 29.5'
Tonnage (gross):: 5054
Tonnage (net):: 4061

Final Disposition

Final Location:: Cleveland, OH.
Lake Erie.
Date:: 1961
How:: Scrapped.

History

Chronology:

1900, May 20 Launched.

1901, Jul 14 Collision with schooner MYRON BUTMAN at Bar Point, Lake Erie.

1905 Collision with & sank wooden steamer THOMAS W. PALMER off Stannard Rock, Lake Superior, HARVARD's bow seriously damaged; to Cleveland, OH for repairs.

1921 Reconstructed, 454' x 50' x 28.6', 4565 gross, 3435 net tons.

1928 New water tube boilers by Babcock & Wilcox, 250 pounds steam, owned Buckeye Steam Ship Co, Cleveland.

1960 Owned Arnold-Luntz Co, Cleveland.

1961 Scrapped at Cleveland.

Notes