1929                                               Imari                                                           1961

Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter

Built at Newcastle-on-Tyne England by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Hull 1365
Launched March 1929

259’ LOA, 252’8” LBP, 43’2” beam, 20’ depth
1 deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 750 IHP

Enrolled at
252.8 x 43.4 x 17.8, 1940 GT, 1158 NT     Br 149497     to:
Inland Steamship Co., Winnipeg MB. (home port Newcastle-on-Tyne England)

Entered service 1929

Sold 1931 to St. Lawrence Steamships Ltd., Montreal QC. and renamed Delaware  (2)

Enrollment transferred to Canada     Can 149497     (home port to Montreal QC.)

Requisitioned 1940 for off-Lakes service during World War II and left the Great Lakes

Renamed Empire Rother 1943

Sold 1949 to Quebec & Ontario Transportation Co., Thorold ON.,  renamed Manicouagan  (1) and returned to the Great Lakes

Renamed Washington Times Herald 1951

Renamed Manitoulin  (1) 1954

Sold for scrap 1961 to A. Newman & Son.  Scrapped at Port Dalhousie ON.

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See history in Great Lakes Ships We Remember p. 271

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