1888                                             Hudson                                    1901

Iron Great Lakes package freighter

Built at Wyandotte MI by Detroit Dry Dock Co., Hull 82
Launched Nov 16, 1887

304’ LOA, 286’ LBP, 41’ beam, 26’ depth
2 decks, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 1700 IHP

Enrolled at Detroit MI May 9, 1888 (#98)
288.0 x 41.0 x 22.1, 2294.14 GT, 1853.37 NT     US 95953     to:
Detroit Dry Dock Co., Wyandotte MI (home port Detroit MI)
Reenrolled at Buffalo NY May 19, 1888 (#58) to Western Transit Co., Buffalo NY (a subsidiary of the New York Central Railway Co. ) (home port to Buffalo NY)

Entered service 1888

Foundered Sept 16, 1901 8 miles off Eagle River, Keweenaw Peninsula, Lake Superior.  All 24 lost. Downbound from Duluth MN with cargo of wheat and flax for Buffalo NY in heavy storm. Enrollment surrendered Sept 30, 1901

See history in Detroit Marine Historian March 1957 (#83)
Also in Great Lakes Ships We Remember p. 216

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