Manitoba (wooden)

1871                                      Manitoba                                        1903

Wooden sidewheel Great Lakes passenger and package freight vessel

Built at Port Robinson ON by Melancthon Simpson
Launched

182’ LOA, 173’ LBP, 25’ beam, 11’ depth
1 deck, coal-fired boiler, vertical beam engine, 380 IHP

Enrolled at
173.0 x 25.0 x 10.0, 750 GT     Can 92653 (Enrolled 1888)     to:
William Beatty, Thorold ON

See history in Scanner Jan and Mar 1986 (#143)
Also in Detroit Marine Historian Nov 1956 (#79)
Also in Great Lakes Ships We Remember p. 265

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