SHREWSBURY (1887, Steamer)

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Identification

Vessel name:: SHREWSBURY
Also known as:: NEW YORK
Year of Build:: 1887
Official Number:: 116152

Construction and Ownership

Built at:: Bath, ME
Vessel Type:: Steamer
Hull Materials:: Wood
Builder Name:: Bath Iron Works
Original Owner and Location:: George Munro, New York, NY

Power

Propulsion:: Sidewheel
Engine Type:: Inclined Compound
# Cylinders:: 2
# Boilers:: 2
Propulsion Notes:: 25 + 44 x 72", 745hp @ 35rpm engine, New England Steamboat Co., Bath, ME, 1887 5' 8" x 17', 100# steam, locomotive boilers, Bath, 1887

Hull Dimensions

Length:: 161.5'
Beam:: 26.5'
Depth:: 7.3'
Tonnage (gross):: 326
Tonnage (net):: 163
Capacity:: 1,2000 passengers

Final Disposition

Final Location:: Ecorse, MI.
Detroit River.
Date:: Oct 1908
How:: dismantled at Great Lakes Engineering Works

History

Chronology:

Ran New York-Shrewsbury River, New Jersey.

1891 Owned Buffalo & Niagara River Navigation Co., Buffalo, NY.

1892, Aug 4 Damaged wheel, Niagara River.

1893 Owned Canfield & Hubbard, Toledo, OH.

1894, Aug Overhauled.

1894 Owned Benjamin L. Cowles & Samuel Sloan (Sloan & Cowles Excursion Co.), Buffalo.

1895, Nov 26 Ashore Buffalo Creek, Lake Erie.

1896, Apr 14 Raised.

1896, Jun 14 Machinery disabled, Niagara River.

1898, Apr 7 Owned Thousand Islands Steamboat Co., Cape Vincent, NY; rebuilt by William Murphy, Buffalo; narrowed 44" for St. lawrence River service; 294 gross/131 net tons; renamed NEW YORK.

1899, Mar Overhauled to increase speed.

1901, Jun 21 Stranded Millers Bend, Niagara River.

1907 Owned Bay Transportation Co., Sandusky, OH; ran Lake Erie Islands.

1908, Oct Dismantled.

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