1899                                  Buffalo     1                                  1942 (1953)

Steel Great Lakes package freighter

Built at Buffalo NY by Union Dry Dock Co., Hull 90
Launched Aug 30, 1899

404’6” LOA, 381’ LBP, 50’ beam, 29’ depth
2 decks, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, quadruple expansion engine, 2257 IHP

Enrolled at Buffalo NY Sept 19, 1899 (#17)
381.7 x 50.5 x 28.0, 3951 GT, 3272 NT     US 3805     to:
Western Transit Co., Buffalo NY

Entered service 1899

Sold Feb 22, 1916 to Great Lakes Transit Corporation, Buffalo NY
The railroads were required under the provisions of the Panama Canal Act of 1912 to divest themselves of competing vessels.  Great Lakes Transit Corporation was organized to own and operate these vessels.

Remeasured 1924 to 4077 GT, 3398 NT

Renamed P. E. Crowley 1925

Sold 1942 for off-Lakes service and was towed down the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers to the Gulf of Mexico

Renamed Kurikka (Fin.) 1947

Scrapped 1953 in England

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