1926                                  Samuel Mather     3                                  1982

Steel Great Lakes bulk freighter

Built at Lorain OH by American Ship Building Co., Hull 792
Launched Feb 13, 1926

600’ LOA, 580’ LBP, 60’ beam, 32’ depth
1 deck, arch cargo hold construction, hatches @ 12’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 2200 IHP

Enrolled at Cleveland OH
586.3 x 60.2 x 27.9, 8151 GT, 6442 NT     US 225409     to:
Interlake Steamship Co., Cleveland OH, Pickands Mather & Co., Mgr. (home port Fairport OH)

Entered service 1926

Home port to Wilmington DE 1932

Transferred 1965 to Labrador Steamships Ltd., Montreal QC, a subsidiary of Pickands Mather & Co.
(home port to Hamilton Bermuda) and renamed Pointe Noire.
Enrolled Bermudan at 587.5 x 60.2 x 27.9, 9171 GT, 6486 NT     Br 317139

Enrollment transferred to Canada 1966     Can 317139     (home port to Montreal QC)

Sold 1968 to Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd., Toronto ON (home port to Toronto ON)

Boilers converted to oil firing 1971 at Toronto ON

Laid up at Toronto ON at end of 1980 season and did not operate again

Sold for scrap 1982 to Newman Steel Co.  Towed to Port Maitland ON and scrapped there.

IMO 5309255

See history in Scanner Feb and March 2003 (#202)
Also in Detroit Marine Historian Sept and Oct 1995 (#12)

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