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

Other name(s): No. 225; No. 226; Sabadash I

Ship owner: Canada Atlantic Transit Co.; Dunbar and Sullivan Dredging Co.; Pickands, Mather and Co.; Sabadash & Sabadash

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

Engine builder: Cleveland Shipbuilding Co., Cleveland, Ohio

Year ship built: 1894

Year engine built: 1894

Location engine built: Cleveland, Ohio

Final disposition: Scrapped, date unknown.

Notes:

First vessel on the Great Lakes built with channel beams.

Engines and upper hull removed c. 1943. Lower hull rebuilt into two scows (1951 and 1963).

Remarks:

b) (bow) Sabadash I (scow) (1951)

c) No. 225 (US. 261791) (1963)

b) (stern) No. 225 (US. 293263) (1963)

Owners:

1) Pickands, Mather & Co., Cleveland, Ohio

2) Canada Atlantic Transit Co. (1907)

3) Sabadash & Sabadash, Detroit, Michigan (c. 1944)

4) Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Co., Buffalo, New York (1963)

Third registry number is US.261791 (below).

Registry number: US.161061;US.293263;

Hull number: 10

Vessel type: Package freighter

Height: 23 ft.

Width: 44.2 ft.

Length: 328 ft.

Stroke length: 40 in.

Gross tonnage: 3092

Net tonnage: 2721

Materials: Steel

Engine type: Triple expansion

Piston 1: 23 in.

Piston 2: 38 in.

Piston 3: 62 in.

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