COLBY, JOSEPH L. (1890, Whaleback)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
COLBY, JOSEPH L.
Also known as:
BAY STATE
Year of Build:
1890
Official Number:
76933
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
West Superior, WI
Vessel Type:
Whaleback
Note: Bulk freighter; double - bottom ballast; 2 watertight bulkheads.
Hull Materials:
Steel
Number of Decks:
1
Hull Number:
108
Builder Name:
American Steel Barge Co.
Original Owner and Location:
American Steel Barge Co., Buffalo, NY.
Power
Propulsion:
Screw
Engine Type:
For-and-Aft Compound
# Cylinders:
2
# Boilers:
2
# Propellers:
1
Propulsion Notes:
26 + 50 x 42", 800hp, 80rpm, S.F. Hodge Co., Detroit, MI 1891; Riverside Iron Works. 2 - 10'1 x 11'6" scotch boilers, 125# steam, Lake Erie Boiler Works, Buffalo, NY 1891.
Hull Dimensions
Length:
265'
Beam:
36'
Depth:
22'
Tonnage (gross):
1245.02
Tonnage (net):
914.95
Final Disposition
Final Location:
South Chicago, Il.
Lake Michigan.
Date:
1935
How:
Scrapped.
Notes:
1935, May 22 Documents surrendered.
History
Chronology:

1890, Nov 18 Launched.

1891, Jan Machinery installed.

1891, Jun 16 Ran St. Lawrence River rapids.

1892, May Damaged engines & lost wheel, Gulf of Mexico; repaired Boston, MA.

1893, May Repaired.

1894, Oct Quarantined for smallpox, Apalachicola, FL.

1896, Jun Returned Great Lakes from East Coast via St. Lawrence River.

1900 Owned Bessemer Steamship Co., Duluth, MN.

1901 Owned Pittsburg Steamship Co., Cleveland; reboilered, two 12.5 x 12', 180# steam, scotch boilers, Jenks Shipbuilding Co., Port Huron, MI.

1905 Owned Boutell Steel Barge Co., Bay City, MI; renamed BAY STATE.

1907 Owned White Oak Transportation Co., Belfast, ME.

1922 Owned Central Dredging Co., Cleveland.

1923 Owned A.E.R. Schneider, Cleveland.

1924 Owned Progress Steamship Co., Cleveland.

1925 - 26 Rebuilt as self-unloading sand & gravel dredge.

1926 Owned Smith - Trudy Sand Co., Sturgeon Bay, WI.

1930 Owned Sound Gravel Co., Chicago, IL.

1931 Owned Progress Steamship Co., Cleveland.

1935 Scrapped.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:
American Bureau of Shipping
Donald V. Baut
Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy
Great Lakes Register
William MacDonald Collection, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit
Contact
Contact
Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
Email:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
Website:
Agency street/mail address:
211 N. First Ave.
Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
(989)356-6188
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