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Fr. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. Marine Historical Collection
Original name: Duluth

Ship owner: Great Lakes Transit Corp.; Peninsula Packers; U.S. Maritime Commission; Western Transit Co.

Ship builder: Chicago Ship Building Co., Chicago, Illinois

Engine builder: Detroit Shipbuilding Co., Wyandotte, Michigan

Year ship built: 1903

Year engine built: 1903

Creator: Peninsula Packers

Final disposition: Out of documentation in 1955. Scrapped in Japan in 1957.

Notes:

To coast in 1942. Converted by Gulf Engineering Co. in Algiers, Louisianna.

Remarks:

Owners:

1) Western Transit Co.

2) Great Lakes Transit Corp. (1916)

3) U. S. Maritime Comm. (1942)

4) Peninsula Packers, Seattle, Washington (1947)

Registry number: US. 200593

Hull number: 64

Vessel type: Package freighter

Height: 26 ft.

Width: 50.2 ft.

Length: 381.6 ft.

Stroke length: 42 in.

Gross tonnage: 4623

Net tonnage: 3785

Materials: Steel

Engine type: Quadruple expansion

Piston 1: 21 in.

Piston 2: 30 in.

Piston 3: 43.5 in.

Piston 4: 63 in.

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