1907 D. O. Mills 1979
Steel Great Lakes bulk freighter
Built at Ecorse MI by Great Lakes Engineering Works, Hull 29
Launched March 12, 1907
556’9” LOA, 532’ LBP, 58’ beam, 31’ depth
1 deck, arch cargo hold construction, hatches @ 12’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 1800 IHP
Enrolled at Detroit MI May 28, 1907 (#71)
532.0 x 58.2 x 32.0, 6598 GT, 4850 NT US 203979 to:
Great Lakes Engineering Works
Reenrolled at Detroit MI June 15, 1907 (Temp #75) to:
Mesaba Steamship Co., Cleveland OH, Pickands Mather & Co., Mgr. (home port to Fairport OH)
Entered service 1907
Permanent enrollment at Cleveland OH June 17, 1907 (#81)
Fleet merged 1913 into Interlake Steamship Co.
Home port to Wilmington DE 1932
Sold 1959 to Tomlinson Fleet Corporation, Cleveland OH
Converted winter 1959-1960 to self-unloader at Superior WI by Fraser-Nelson Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. and renamed G. A. Tomlinson (2) 1960
Fleet sold 1971 to Oglebay Norton Co., Cleveland OH
Boilers converted 1974 to oil firing.
Sold for scrap 1979 to Triad Salvage Inc. and scrapped at Ashtabula OH
IMO 5124734
See history in Detroit Marine Historian Dec 1980 (#218)
Also in Great Lakes Ships We Remember II p. 354
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Worked on this freighter in 1975 as a deckhand. The G.A. Tomlinson in 1975 was limited to Lake Huron and Lake Erie and was the only “self-unloader” I worked on that the boom cables had to manually shifted depending on which side of the boat we were off-loading on.
I would love any photos of D.O Mills. She was the first of many my father was the skipper of Im guess he was Capt somewhere close to1945. Otto H Schwedler and we went on to skipper many others until retiring.
Harold Schwedler