Field, Albert C.

1923                                  Albert C. Field                                  1941 (1944)

Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter

Built at Middlesbrough England by Furness Shipbuilding Co., Hull 44
Launched

261’ LOA, 253’ LBP, 43’3” beam, 20’ depth
1 deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 1000 IHP

Enrolled at Haverton-Hill-on-Tees England
252.5 x 43.3 x 17.8, 1764 GT, 1303 NT     Br 147767     to:
Eastern Steamship Co., St. Catharines ON, Boland & Cornelius, Mgr. (home port Haverton-Hill-on-Tees England)

Entered service 1923

Enrollment transferred to Canada 1931     Can 147767     (home port to Port Colborne ON)

Sold Dec 29, 1936 to Upper Lakes & St. Lawrence Transportation Co., Toronto ON

Requisitioned 1941 for off-Lakes service during World War I and left the Great Lakes

Sunk June 18, 1944 off Normandy, Atlantic Ocean

 

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