1911 Dalhousie City 1950 (1961)
Steel day excursion passenger vessel
Built at Collingwood ON by Collingwood Shipbuilding Co., Hull 30
Launched June 24, 1911
199’8” LOA, 193’ LBP, 37’ beam, 20’7” depth
4 decks, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 1500 IHP
Enrolled at Toronto ON
199.8 x 37.0 x 20.7, 1256 GT, 752 NT Can 130312 to:
Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto Navigation Co., St. Catharines ON (home port Toronto ON)
Entered service 1911
Sold 1950 to Lake Shore Lines, Lachine QC for excursion service out of Montreal QC and left the Great Lakes.
Renamed Island King II 1950 and Bucknor 1961
Cabins destroyed by fire Nov 13, 1960 at Lachine QC. Hull scrapped 1961.
See history in Scanner May 1978 (#75)
Also in Detroit Marine Historian March 1961 (#115)
Also in Great Lakes Ships We Remember p. 156
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Is there somewhere to see the crew’s names of the Dalhousie City and the Northumberland? My grandfather John Edwards was a captain of one apparently.