1924 Greater Detroit 1956
Steel sidewheel passenger and package freight vessel
Built at Lorain OH by American Ship Building Co., Hull 785
Launched Sept 15, 1923
535’ LOA, 519’ LBP, 58’ beam, 23’7” depth
2 decks, coal-fired boilers, inclined compound engine, 12000 IHP
Enrolled at Detroit MI
518.7 x 58.0 x 21.3, 7739 GT, 3330 NT US 223664 to:
Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co., Detroit MI (home port Detroit MI)
Entered service 1924
Normal route was overnight passenger and package freight service between Detroit MI and Buffalo NY
Laid up at foot of Third Street, Detroit MI at end of 1950 season and did not operate again
Sold for scrap 1956 to Robert L. Rosen and Abraham Siegel, Detroit MI. Dismantled at Detroit, cabins burned Dec 12, 1956 in Lake St. Clair as a spectacle, hull towed to Hamilton ON and scrapped there by Steel Company of Canada.
See history in Great Lakes Ships We Remember p. 204
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My father, John L. Howard, sailed on the Greater Detroit and I have a numbered print of the ship (artist Jim Clary). I would like to sell the print which is signed, numbered, and framed.
It was either 1940 or 1941 when my parents, my younger brother and I took the Greater Detroit out of Buffalo on our way from our Connecticut home to my grandparents home in Wisconsin. My brother and i spent some time running around the ship, as I remember. I was 8 or 9 at the time.