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

Ship owner: Lake Michigan & Lake Superior Trans. Co.; Rochester Transit Co.; T. L. Handy; Union Steamboat Line

Ship builder: Taylor & Jewett, Buffalo, New York

Engine builder: H. G. Trout, Buffalo, New York

Year ship built: 1869

Year engine built: 1869

Final disposition: Sank in Lake Erie on June 17, 1918 off southeast Shoal Light Vessel.

Notes:

Cut down and rebuilt as lumber barge in 1906.

Remarks:

Owners:

1) Union Steamboat Line (Erie RR)

2) Lake Michigan & Lake Superior Transportation Co., Chicago, Illinois (1884)

3) T. L. Handy, Bay City, Michigan (1905)

4) Rochester Transit Co., Rochester, New York (1915)

Registry number: US 75117

Hull number: None

Vessel type: Passenger and Freight, propeller

Height: 11.7

Width: 33

Length: 213.8

Stroke length: 36

Gross tonnage: 840

Net tonnage: 523

Materials: Wood

Engine type: Steeple compound

Piston 1: 24

Piston 2: 46

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