Also known as:

LAKEPORT

Year of Build:

1880

Official Number:

3140

Built at:

Wyandotte, MI

Vessel Type:

Package Freighter

Note: 5 watertight bulkheads; double bottom ballast tanks; iron hull with wooden superstructure; sister to LEHIGH.

Hull Materials:

Iron

Number of Decks:

2

Hull Number:

40

Builder Name:

Detroit Dry Dock Co.

Original Owner and Location:

Western Transportation Co., Buffalo, NY

Propulsion:

Screw

Engine Type:

Steeple Compound

# Cylinders:

4

# Boilers:

2

# Propellers:

1

Propulsion Notes:

2 double steeple compound engines, 17 & 40" cylinders, 42 stroke; 750hp @ 76rpm, King Iron Works, Buffalo, NY. (1880) 2 8'7" x 16' firebox boilers, 105# pressure, Farrar & Treft Boiler Works, Buffalo, NY.

Length:

266' 4"

Beam:

36'

Depth:

17'

Tonnage (gross):

1,829

Capacity:

2,740 tons

Final Location:

Buffalo, NY. Lake Erie

Date:

1941

How:

Scrapped.

1883 Ran Chicago-Buffalo, NY.

1898 Ashore in fog, South Manitow Island; freed by wrecker FAVORITE.

1905 Rebuilt 263.2 x 36 x 15.4, 1,829 gross/1,669 net tons.

1912, Mar Owned Port Huron & Duluth Steamship Co.; renamed LAKEPORT.

1917, Apr 7 Owned Northwestern Transportation Co., Port Huron.

1919 Rebuilt & shortened 240 x 36.4 x 18', 1,294 gross/643 net tons. Owned Minesota Loan & Trust Co., Peterson & Collinge. Single deck, 5 hatches, 2400 ton capacity.

1930 Owned Buffalo Gravel Corporation, Buffalo, NY.

1931-1935 Canadian registry.

1941 Scrapped, Buffalo, NY.

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie

Sources:

American Bureau of Shipping

Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy

Great Lakes Register

H. G. Runge Collection, Milwaukee Public Library

Lorne Joyce

Newspaper Clippings

Peter J. VanderLinden

William MacDonald Collection, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit

Donald V. Baut