Grover, Maurice B.

1887                                 Maurice B. Grover                           1909

Wooden Great Lakes bulk freighter

Built at Cleveland OH by William H. Radcliffe
Launched

291’6” LOA, 272’ LBP, 40’ beam, 26’9” depth
1 deck, hold beams, coal-fired boilers, fore and aft compound engine, 750 IHP

Enrolled at Cleveland OH May 24, 1887 (#93)
272.0 x 40.6 x 21.4, 1995.90 GT, 1585.92 NT     US 91922     to:
M. A. Bradley et al., Cleveland OH (home port Cleveland OH)

Entered service 1887

Transferred 1893 to Ohio Transportation Co., M. A. Bradley, Mgr.

Partially rebuilt 1898 at Buffalo NY
Remeasured to 2213.42 GT, 1803.44 NT

Boilers condemned 1906.  Converted to bulk freight schooner barge at Chicago IL
Remeasured to 281.4 x 40.6 x 23.8, 2147 GT, 1986 NT

Laid up about 1909 in the Pine River at Marine City MI and abandoned.  Enrollment surrendered March 24, 1915.

 

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