1889 City of Racine 1938
Wooden Great Lakes passenger and package freight vessel
Built at Manitowoc WI by Burger & Burger
Launched April 18, 1889
220’ LOA, 203’ LBP, 40’ beam, 22’2” depth
2 decks, coal-fired boilers, fore and aft compound engine, 1000 IHP
Enrolled at Milwaukee WI June 7, 1889 (#133)
203.5 x 40.0 x 13.5, 1041.02 GT, 801.39 NT US 126551 to:
Goodrich Transit Co., Milwaukee WI (home port Milwaukee WI)
Home port to Duluth MN 1906
Renamed Arizona 1909
Retired 1925 from active service with the company
Chartered for 1927 season to Peninsular & Northern Navigation Co., Milwaukee WI
Laid up permanently at Manitowoc WI
Sold 1931 to George Mills & Co., Detroit MI for use as a power plant at Grosse Isle MI during the construction of the Livingstone Channel on the Detroit River
Abandoned 1938 at Toledo OH. Enrollment surrendered March 27, 1939.
See history in Detroit Marine Historian Jan 1952 (#31)
See history in Great Lakes Ships We Remember p. 129
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