1882                                    F. & P. M. No. 2                        1919

Wooden Great Lakes passenger and package freight vessel

Built at Detroit MI by Detroit Dry Dock Co., Hull 60
Launched July 15, 1882

177’ LBP, 30’ beam, 22’ depth
1 deck, coal-fired boiler, fore and aft compound engine, 500 IHP

Enrolled at Detroit MI Sept 5, 1882 (Temp #20)
144.1 x 30.2 x 12.1, 636.57 GT, 537.42 NT     US 120500     to:
Flint & Pere Marquette Rail Road Co., East Saginaw MI (home port East Saginaw MI)

Permanent enrollment at Port Huron MI Sept 11, 1882 (#40)

Lengthened 1883 at Milwaukee WI by Burger and Burger Shipyard
Remeasured to 177.7 length and 771.21 GT, 632.36 NT

Fleet renamed Pere Marquette Railroad Co. 1900. 

Vessel renamed Pere Marquette 2 1901.

Sold 1903 to Manistee, Ludington & Milwaukee Transportation Co., Manistee MI

Sold 1904 to Michigan Salt Transportation Co., Milwaukee WI

Sold 1906 to Hamilton & Montreal Navigation Co., Hamilton ON, R. O. and A. B. Mackay, Mgr. (home port to Hamilton ON) and renamed Dundurn.
U.S. enrollment surrendered Feb 21, 1906
Enrolled Canadian at 190.0 x 30.2 x 12.2, 1120 GT, 600 NT     Can 112207  

Transferred 1908 to Inland Navigation Co. 

Transferred 1910 to Inland Lines Ltd., James Playfair, Mgr.

Fleet merged 1913 into Canada Steamship Lines, Montreal QC

Converted to barge 1916 at Toronto ON by Polson Iron Works
Remeasured to 186.3 x 30.3 x 12.0, 472 NT

Foundered July 15, 1919 outside Ashtabula Harbor, Lake Erie.  Two lives lost.  Had left Ashtabula with cargo of coal for Port Dover ON towed by tug Home Rule.  Swamped by a heavy sea and sank.

See history in Scanner Midsummer 1987 (#156)

 

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