1880                                       Minnesota                                 1903

Wooden Great Lakes bulk freighter

Built at Milwaukee WI
Launched

212’6” LOA, 200’ LBP, 36’9” beam, 22’ depth
2 decks, coal-fired boilers, fore and aft compound engine, 625 IHP

Enrolled at Milwaukee WI Aug 7, 1880 (#18)
206.9 x 36.8 x 18.5, 1138.03 tons (903.10 NT 1882)     US 91272     to:
Inter-Ocean Transportation Co., Milwaukee WI

Entered service 1880

Sold 1899 to Lake Shore Transit Co., Cleveland OH, J. C. Gilchrist, Mgr.

Sold 1899 to James Corrigan, Cleveland OH (home port to Fairport OH)

Burned Nov 17, 1903 above the head of Walpole Island, St. Clair River.  Caught fire in engine room.  No lives lost.  The crew anchored the burning vessel in the middle of the river and left in her yawl boat.  Enrollment surrendered Nov 25, 1903.

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