BRAZIL (1890, Bulk Freighter)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
BRAZIL
Also known as:
GLENBRAE;BRAZIL
Year of Build:
1890
Official Number:
3467
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Buffalo, NY
Vessel Type:
Bulk Freighter
Note: "duplicate of AMERICA, 1889".
Hull Materials:
Steel
Number of Decks:
2
Hull Number:
51
Builder Name:
Union Dry Dock Co.
Original Owner and Location:
Maythan & Drake, Buffalo, NY
Power
Number of Masts:
3
Propulsion:
Screw
Engine Type:
Triple Expansion
# Cylinders:
3
# Boilers:
2
# Propellers:
1
Propulsion Notes:
19 1/2, 32 & 52 x 45", 985hp @ 84rpm engine, H.G. Trout, Buffalo, NY, 1890. 11 1/2 x 12', 150# scotch boilers from Lake Erie Boiler Works, 1890.
Hull Dimensions
Length:
276.1'
Beam:
40'
Depth:
21.6'
Tonnage (gross):
2187
Tonnage (net):
1655
Final Disposition
Final Location:
South Chicago, IL.
Lake Michigan.
Date:
1943
How:
Abandoned.
Notes:
Scrapped sometime between 1943 & 1949.
History
Chronology:

1891, Nov 22 Collided with & sank steamer SAMUEL MATHER off Pt. Iroquois, Lake Superior.

1892, Aug 16 Record oat cargo on Lakes - 161,000 bushels.

1896 Owned John Kelderhouse et al, Buffalo, NY.

1898 Rebuilt Buffalo as package freighter; owned Republic Steamship Co.

1904 Owned Wisconsin Transportation Co., Sheboygan, WI.

1913 Owned North American Steamship Co., Cleveland, OH.

1916 Owned Boland & Cornelius, Buffalo, NY.

1916 Owned Lake Erie Transportation Co., Cleveland.

1917 Hold reconstructed.

1919 Owned Great Lakes Transportation Co., Midland, ONT; renamed GLENBARE; C138217, 276 x 40 x 21.25; 2350 gross / 1423 net tons.

c1926 Renamed BRAZIL.

c1928 Owned Illinois Ship & Dredge Co., Chicago. Converted to self-unloading sand dredge Toledo Shipbuilding Co.; 276.1 x 40.2 x 24.4; 2166 gross / 1655 net tons.

1933 Tonnage change 2186 gross tons.

c1943 Abandoned & scrapped.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:
American Bureau of Shipping
Donald V. Baut
Bowling Green State University, Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
Dossin Great Lakes Museum
Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy
Great Lakes Register
William MacDonald Collection, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit
Newspaper Clippings
H. G. Runge Collection, Milwaukee Public Library
Lorne Joyce
Contact
Contact
Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
Email:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
Website:
https://www.alpenalibrary.org

Agency street/mail address:
211 N. First Ave.
Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
(989)356-6188
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