1898                                  City of Erie                                  1941

Steel sidewheel Great Lakes overnight passenger and package freight vessel

Built at Wyandotte MI by Detroit Dry Dock Co., Hull 126
Launched Feb 26, 1898

330’ LOA, 316’ LBP, 44’ beam, 18’ depth
3 decks, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, compound beam engine, 2200 IHP

Enrolled at Detroit MI June 11, 1898 Temp #68)
316.0 x 44.0 x 18.0, 2498.92 GT, 1280.41 NT     US 127242     to:
Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co., Cleveland OH (home port Cleveland OH)

Entered service 1898

Laid up at Cleveland OH at end of 1936 season

Sold 1941 for scrap.  Scrapped at Cleveland OH by Otis Steel Co.

See history in Detroit Marine Historian Feb 1956 (#73)
Also in Great Lakes Ships We Remember p. 115

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