City of Detroit 2

1889                                  City of Detroit     2                                  1941

Steel sidewheel overnight passenger vessel

Built at Wyandotte MI by Detroit Dry Dock Co., Hull 88
Launched Sept 26, 1888

297’6” LOA, 286’ LBP’, 41’ beam, 25’8” depth
1 deck, coal-fired boilers, compound beam engine, 2800 IHP

Enrolled at Detroit MI May 7, 1889 (#85)
286.6 x 70.8 x 14.0, 1919.27 GT, 1454.00 NT     US 126546     to:
Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Co., Detroit MI (home port Detroit MI)

Fleet name changed 1898 to Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co.

Renamed City of Detroit II 1912

Sold Nov 26, 1924 to Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co., Cleveland OH and renamed Goodtime 1925 (home port to Cleveland OH)

Corporate charter relocated 1928 to DE (home port to Wilmington DE)

Sold 1941 to Leo J. Omelian and Carl J. Guerrein, Erie PA.  Dismantled at Erie, hull towed to Hamilton ON and scrapped there by Steel Company of Canada

 

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