1928                                  Troisdoc     1                                  1940 (1942)

Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter

Built at Wallsend-on-Tyne England by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Hull 1337
Launched

259’ LOA, 253’ LBP, 43’2” beam, 20’ depth
1 deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 750 IHP

Enrolled at
253.0 x 43.3 x 17.8, 1925 GT, 1146 NT     Br 149462     to:
Paterson Steamships Ltd., Fort William ON (home port Newcastle-on-Tyne England)

Entered service 1928

Enrollment transferred to Canada 1930     Can 149462     (home port to Fort William ON)

Requisitioned 1940 for off-Lakes service during World War II and left the Great Lakes

Torpedoed and sunk May 21, 1942 by German submarine off Jamaica, Caribbean Sea.  No lives lost.  Enroute from Mobile AL to Georgetown British Guiana.

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