1903                                  Westmount     1                                   1916 (1944)

Steel St. Lawrence Canal size bulk freighter

Built at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Eng. by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Hull 287
Launched

255’ LOA, 248’ LBP, 43’ beam, 23’ depth
1deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 1050 IHP

Enrolled at Newcastle Eng.
248.7 x 42.0 x 20.6, 1875 GT, 1171 NT     Can 114445     to:
Montreal Transporation Co., Montreal QC (home port Montreal QC)

Entered Great Lakes service 1903

Sold 1916 to Inter-American Steamship Co. for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes.

Renamed Wethersfield 1916, Max Bernstein (Germ.), Fordson I, Tractor, and Ludoft Oldendorff

Sunk Oct 9, 1944 by aircraft fire off Egersund Norway

See history in Scanner March 1978 (#73)
Also in Great Lakes Ships We Remember  III p. 405

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