ANN ARBOR #3 (1898, Car Ferry (Rail Ferry))

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Identification

Vessel name:: ANN ARBOR #3
Also known as:: MANISTEE
Year of Build:: 1898
Official Number:: 107418

Construction and Ownership

Built at:: Cleveland, OH
Vessel Type:: Car Ferry (Rail Ferry); Note: Extended forecastle; transverse framing; steel sterngate; 6 watertight bulk heads.
Hull Materials:: Steel
Number of Decks:: 3
Hull Number:: 75
Builder Name:: Globe Iron Works
Original Owner and Location:: Ann Arbor Railroad Co., Frankfort, MI

Power

Propulsion:: Screw
Engine Type:: Horizontal
# Cylinders:: 2 each
# Boilers:: 4
# Propellers:: 2
Propulsion Notes:: Engines from Ann Arbor #1 & #2. 2 - 20, 40 x 36" built Samuel Hodge Detroit 1892. Water tube boilers.

Hull Dimensions

Length:: 258.3'
Beam:: 52.3'
Depth:: 15.3'
Tonnage (gross):: 1677
Tonnage (net):: 996

History

Chronology:

1898, Sep Launched; ran Frankfort, MI to Kewaunee, WI.

1922 Reconstructed Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co; twin triple expansion steam engines built 1918, General Ordnance Co; each 15 3/4, 26 1/8, 44 1/8 x 26"; 1400 IHP; 2 scotch boilers 13' x 11'6", 180# steam from Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co, 1922; coal fired; lengthened 49 feet-307' x 52' x 18'6" or 306.9 x 52.3 x 17.1; 2047 gross/936 net tons.

c1962-65 Made carferry barge; 1917 gross/1895 net tons.

1962-72 Owned Bultema Dock & Dredge Co., Muskegon.

1965 Chartered Mackinac Transportation Co. to replace CHIEF WAWATAM at Straits of Mackinac, towed by tug MUSKEGON.

1967, Nov 16 Broke tow line & went ashore south of Frankfort, MI, released on 17th.

1968-70 Replaced CHIEF WAWATAM, Straits.

1972 Owned Bultema-Ingram; ran Detroit, MI-Windsor, ONT route with tug PRESCOTONT.

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; Newspaper Clippings; Peter J. VanderLinden