1901 Charles S. Neff 1944 (1955)
Steel Great Lakes bulk lumber carrier
Built at Port Huron MI by Jenks Shipbuilding Co., Hull 16
Launched June 5, 1901
212’ LOA, 200’ LBP, 38’ beam, 14’ depth
1 deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, fore and aft compound engine, 600 IHP
Enrolled at Port Huron MI June 29, 1901 (Temp #84)
200.0 x 38.0 x 11.6, 992 GT, 800 NT US 127547 to:
Sidney Neff Lumber Co., Milwaukee WI, Samuel Neff & Sons, Mgr. (home port Milwaukee WI)
Entered service July 11, 1901 clearing Port Huron MI for Washburn WI
Sold March 15, 1918 to A. B. Mackay for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes
Renamed Serpentine (Fr.) 1918, Gabino (Cuba) 1921 and Gabino (UK 147517) 1924
Sold 1924 to Niagara Sand Corporation, Buffalo NY and returned to the Great Lakes
Converted 1925 to sand dredge at Buffalo NY, renamed Weston M. Carroll and returned to service
Remeasured to 1069 GT, 871 NT
Transferred 1926 to Buffalo Gravel Corporation, Buffalo NY
Sold 1944 for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes
Renamed San Pedro 1950
Sank Feb 1955 in Fortaleza harbor, Brazil and abandoned to the underwriters. Hull scrapped to clear the harbor in the 1960s.
See history in Great Lakes Ships We Remember II p. 244
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