1925 D. B. Hanna 1940 (1941)
Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter
Built at Haverton Hill-on-Tees England by Furness Shipbuilding Co., Hull 91
Launched
261’ LOA, 253’ LBP, 43’2” beam, 20’ depth
1 deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 850 IHP
Enrolled at
252.5 x 43.2 x 17.8, 1780 GT, 1285 NT Br 147780 to:
Toronto Insurance & Vessel Agency Ltd., Toronto ON, James B. Foote, Mgr. (home port Middlesboro England)
Entered service 1925
Transferred 1929 to Union Transit Co.
Sold 1939 to Paterson Steamships Ltd., Fort William ON and renamed Collingdoc (1)
Enrollment transferred to Canada Can 147780 (home port to Fort William ON)
Requisitioned 1940 for off-Lakes service during World War I and left the Great Lakes
Struck mine July 13, 1941 off Southard Pier England and sank. Hull raised and sunk as a blockship off Brest France.
See history in Great Lakes Ships We Remember II p. 140
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