1907                                  Rochester     1                                  1945 (1960)

Steel Great Lakes package freighter

Built at Ecorse MI by Great Lakes Engineering Works, Hull 35
Launched Sept 28, 1907

403’1” LOA, 382’6” LBP, 50’ beam, 30’ depth

2 decks, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, quadruple expansion engine, 2100 IHP

Enrolled at Detroit MI Nov 9, 1907
381.0 x 50.2 x 30.0, 4571 GT, 3855 NT     US 204650     to:
Western Transit Co., Buffalo NY

Entered service 1907

Sold Feb 22, 1916 to Great Lakes Transit Corporation, Buffalo NY
The railroads were required under the provisions of the Panama Canal Act of 1912 to divest themselves of competing vessels.  Great Lakes Transit Corporation was organized to own and operate these vessels.

Renamed Alfred H. Smith 1920

Remeasured 1924 to 4698 GT, 3982 NT

Sold 1945 for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes.

Renamed Quintero (Chile) 1945 and Atacama 1954

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