1881                             City of Milwaukee     1                         1919

Iron sidewheel cross-lake passenger and package freight vessel

Built at Wyandotte MI by Detroit Dry Dock Co., Hull 44
Launched Feb 12, 1881

242’ LOA, 231’ LBP, 33’6” beam, 22’ depth
2 decks, coal-fired boilers, vertical beam engine, 1600 IHP

Enrolled at Detroit MI May 31, 1881 (#143)
230.7 x 33.8 x 12.3, 1148.72 ton (gross tons, 871.59 NT 1882)     US 125906     to:
Goodrich Transportation Co., Chicago IL

Entered service 1881

Sold May 1, 1883 to Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co., Grand Haven MI

Sold 1897 to Graham & Morton Transportation Co., Benton Harbor MI

Renamed Holland 1904

Sold 1917 to Crosby Transportation Co., Milwaukee WI

Transferred 1918 to Holland Steamship Co., Milwaukee WI, Crosby Transportation Co., Mgr.

Renamed Muskegon 1919

Wrecked Oct 28, 1919 on Muskegon harbor pier and foundered.  29 lives lost.

See history in Detroit Marine Historian May-June 1957 (#85)
Also in Great Lakes Ships We Remember p. 126

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