1884                                     Australasia                                     1896

Wooden Great Lakes bulk freighter

Built at West Bay City MI by James Davidson, Hull 9
Launched

2 decks, coal-fired boilers, fore and aft compound engine,

Enrolled at Buffalo NY Sept 17, 1884 (#16)
282.0 x 39.0 x 21.2, 1829.32 GT, 1539.20 NT     US 106302     to:
James Davidson, Buffalo NY (home port Buffalo NY)

Entered service 1884

Sold 1886 to James Corrigan and John Huntington ½ each, Cleveland OH (home port to Cleveland OH)

Home port to Fairport OH 1892

Transferred 1893 to Corrigan Transit Co., Cleveland OH
(Corrigan Transit Co. and John Huntington ½ each)

Burned Oct 18, 1896 off Cana Island, Whitefish Bay, Sturgeon Bay, Lake Michigan.  No lives lost.  Run on beach.  Upbound for Milwaukee WI with cargo of coal.  Enrollment surrendered Dec 1, 1896.

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