1879                                 Milwaukee     2                                 1917

Wooden Great Lakes package freighter

Built at Cleveland OH by Thomas Quayle & Sons
Launched June 19, 1879

270’ LOA, 264’ LBP, 37’ beam, 24’ depth
2 decks, coal-fired boilers, steeple compound engine, 510 IHP

Enrolled at Buffalo NY June 23, 1879 (#67)
264.9 x 36.7 x 16.4, 1770.10 tons (1571.26 NT 1882)     US 91150     to:
Western Transportation Co., Buffalo NY (home port Buffalo NY)

Fleet renamed Western Transit Co. 1884

Renamed Yonkers 1902 (to free up former name for new vessel building for the fleet)

Sold 1910 to Cleveland-Chicago Transit Co.,    (home port to Duluth MN)

Sold 1910 to Jacob Ullman, Buffalo NY

Sold 1911 to Gillen Dock, Dredge & Construction Co., Racine WI

Converted to barge
Remeasured to 16.3 depth and 1209 GT, 1195 NT

Sold 1917 to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., Chicago IL

Stranded Oct 14, 1917 on a sand bar at Ashtabula OH, Lake Erie.  Burned June 5, 1918 and abandoned.

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