Champlain 1

1910 Champlain 1 1962

Steel Great Lakes bulk freighter

Built at Ecorse MI by Great Lakes Engineering Works, Hull 72
Keel laid Nov 1, 1909; launched March 4, 1910

465’ LOA, 444’ LBP, 56’ beam, 30’ depth
1 deck, arch cargo hold construction, hatches @ 12’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 1700 IHP

Enrolled at Detroit MI April 11, 1910 (#85)
444.0 x 56.2 x 31.0, 5494 GT, 4153 NT US 207284 to:
Great Lakes Engineering Works

Reenrolled at Detroit MI April 26, 1910 (Temp #92) to:
Northern Lakes Steamship Co., Cleveland OH (home port to Duluth MN)

Entered service April 1910

Permanent enrollment at Duluth MN June 18, 1910 (#36)

Fleet sold 1915 to Pioneer Steamship Co., Cleveland OH, Hutchinson & Co., Mgr. (home port to Fairport OH) and vessel renamed Frank Billings.

Home port to Wilmington DE 1932

Boilers converted to oil firing 1954

Sold for scrap 1962 to Fraser-Nelson Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Superior WI and scrapped at Superior

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5 thoughts on “Champlain 1”

Chad Winterbottom on January 21, 2013 at 9:37 pm said:

Have information that my great, great grandfather was a Captain at one time on the Ship “The Champlain”, of the Northern Lines on the great lakes. His name was Jared Erwin Kennan or JE Kennan. Would love to find out if his name pops up in your records for this ship. Found this information in an article in the Sandusky Register dated July 31, 1911. Any contact on this would be appreciated. Thanks.

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- SBerry on January 30, 2013 at 10:54 pm said:
  
  I don’t find your great great grandfather listed as captain of this ship for 1911 through 1913. The appointment for 1910 was not announced in the 1910 Red Book since she didn’t enter service (as a new vessel) until May of that year.
  
  I also didn’t find his name in the appointments to the other vessels we discussed on the phone.
  
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- Sharon on January 3, 2022 at 12:37 am said:
  
  Hello,how are you doing were you able to fine out any more Information about the Kennan
  
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Jeannie Drouillard Lawrence on May 6, 2018 at 4:13 am said:

My grandfather, Alfred C. Drouillard, was promoted to First Mate on this boat on June 20, 1911 and finished the season in that capacity.

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Sharon oates on December 7, 2021 at 12:23 am said:

Hello I believe that Mr Keenan was part of the Sheridan vessel along with his brother’s he is my 2 great grandfather on my mother’s side

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