Glenellah

1905                                  Glenellah                                  1960

Steel St. Lawrence River canal size package and bulk freight vessel

Built at Dundee, Scotland by Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Hull 183
Launched

256’ LOA, 250’ LBP, 43’2” beam, 23’5” depth
2 decks, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 900 IHP

Enrolled at Toronto ON
250.0 x 43.2 x 23.5, 2272 GT, 1454 NT     Can 112205     to:
Union Steamship Co., Hamilton ON, R. O. & A. B. Mackay, Mgr. (home port
Hamilton ON)

Entered Great Lakes service Oct 4, 1905 clearing Toronto ON for Fort William ON

Fleet management 1910 to James Playfair, Midland ON, operated as Inland Lines Ltd.

Fleet merged 1913 into Canada Steamship Lines, Montreal QC

Renamed Calgarian  (2) 1926

Sold for scrap 1960 to Steel Company of Canada.  Scrapped at Hamilton ON.

See history in Scanner Oct 1986 (#148)

 

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