Original name: Tom Adams
Other name(s): Langham
Ship owner: Craig & Adams; J. T. Adams
Ship builder: F. W. Wheeler & Co., West Bay City, Michigan
Engine builder: Cleveland Shipbuilding Co., Cleveland, Ohio
Year ship built: 1888
Year engine built: 1888
Final disposition: Destroyed by fire Beta Grise Bay, off Keweenaw Point, Lake Superior, 10-23-10.
Notes:
Launched, 4-24-1888.
Remarks:
Names:
b) Langham (1901)
Owners:
1) Craig & Adams, Toledo, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan
2) J. T. Adams, Detroit, Michigan
Registry number: US. 145481
Hull number: 36
Vessel type: Bulk Freighter
Height: 20
Width: 41
Length: 281
Stroke length: 42
Gross tonnage: 1810
Net tonnage: 1451
Materials: Wood
Engine type: Triple expansion
Piston 1: 19
Piston 2: 33
Piston 3: 54
Tom Adams - At the Soo Locks in the 1890s, the center vessel in a typical crowd of ships.
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Tom Adams - Port side view, near the Soo Locks, the Adams served primarily in the iron ore and bulk materials trade. The flag on the forward mast is the company's "house" flag (or emblem].
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Langham
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Tom Adams - This photo show the Adams in its final arrangement with one mast and the double smokestacks reduced to one.
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