(1889) 1901                                  Theano                                  1906

Steel ocean bulk freighter

Built at Rotterdam, Netherlands by P. Smit & Sons, Hull 16
Launched
Built for Dutch owners.  Returned to British ownership in 1900.

251’ LOA, 36’ beam, 17’1” depth
1 deck, hold beams, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine

Enrolled at
241.8 x 36.0 x 17.1, 1534 GT, 952 NT     Br 110350     (home port Newcastle Eng.)

Sold 1900 to Algoma Central Steamship Co., Sault Ste. Marie ON and entered Great Lakes service.

Wrecked Nov 17, 1906 on Trowbridge Island near Thunder Bay, Lake Superior.  No lives lost.

See history in Scanner Nov 1999 (#251)

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