1893                                  S. S. Curry                                  1937

Steel Great Lakes bulk and package freight vessel

Built at West Bay City MI by F. W. Wheeler & Co., Hull 94
Launched April 27, 1893
Longest vessel on the Great Lakes when launched and when entered service (Merida and Centurion launched and entered service later that season at same dimensions) (until Victory and Zenith City of 1895 – superseded Mariposa, W. H. Gilbert and Maritana of 1892)
Built with engine and boilers located amidships

380’ LOA, 360’ LBP, 45’ beam, 26’ depth
2 decks, hold beams, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 1500 IHP

Enrolled at Cleveland OH May 10, 1893 (#108)
360.0 x 45.0 x 20.8, 3260.01 GT, 2608.24 NT     US 116558     to:
Hawgood & Avery Transit Co., Cleveland OH, H. A. Hawgood, Mgr. (home port Cleveland OH)

Entered service 1893

Home port to Rockport OH 1894 and to Fairport OH 1896

Lengthened 72’ winter 1904-05, machinery moved aft and converted to bulk carrier, 1 deck, 13 hatches @ 24’ at American Ship Building Co., Cleveland OH
Remeasured to 432.0 x 45.0 x 25.0, 3931 GT, 2901 NT

Sold Dec 18, 1915 to Interstate Steamship Co., Cleveland OH, a subsidiary of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, W. H. Becker, Mgr. (home port to Duluth MN)

Renamed Elmore 1920

Sold Jan 23, 1922 to Valley Camp Steamship Co., Cleveland OH and renamed P. W. Sherman (home port to Fairport OH)

Renamed E. G. Mathiott  (1) 1926

Firm reincorporated 1932 in Delaware (home port to Wilmington DE)

Sold 1932 to Columbia Transportation Co., Cleveland OH

Scrapped 1937 at Fairport OH

See history in Great Lakes Ships We Remember II p. 215

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