Baird, Frank B.

1923                                  Frank B. Baird                                  1940 (1942)

Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter

Built at Old Kilpatrick Scotland by Napier & Miller, Hull 239
Launched

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

Enrolled at Glasgow Scotland
253.5 x 43.2 x 17.9, 1748 GT, 1276 NT     Br 147854     to:
Eastern Steamship Co., Port Colborne ON, Boland & Cornelius, Mgr. (home port Glasgow Scotland)

Entered service 1923

Enrollment transferred to Canada 1931     Can 147854     (home port to St. Catharines ON)

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

Requisitioned 1940 for off-Lakes service during World War II and left the Great Lakes

Sunk May 22, 1942 by German submarine, Atlantic Ocean

 

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