RAPIDS (1905, Steamer)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
RAPIDS
Year of Build:
1905
Official Number:
20609
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Grand Rapids, MI
Vessel Type:
Steamer
Hull Materials:
Wood
Builder Name:
Godfrey
Power
Propulsion:
Sternwheel
Hull Dimensions
Length:
134.66'
Beam:
28.33'
Depth:
4.42'
Tonnage (gross):
219
Tonnage (net):
140
Final Disposition
Final Location:
Paducah, Kentucky, Ohio River
Date:
Dec 1917
How:
Wrecked in ice
History
Chronology:

Built to run Grand Haven, Michigan, to Grand Rapids, Michigan

1908 To Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

1909, May First & largest vessels (with steamer GRAND) to trek across

Wisconsin through the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway; owned Little

Rock, Arkansas

1909, July 8 Enrolled Memphis, Tennessee

1911-12 To Paducah, Kentucky

1917, December Wrecked

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
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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