Buckeye State

1930                                        Buckeye State                           1948  (1956)

Steel twin-screw New York State Barge Canal size bulk freighter

Built at Ogdensburg NY by St. Lawrence Marine & Repair Dock Corporation, Hull Launched

260’ LOA, 255’ LBP, 43’6” beam, 18’ depth
1 deck, 2 oil-fired engines, 720 BHP

Enrolled at Buffalo NY
245.5 x 43.6 x 17.1, 1473 GT, 1180 NT     US 229778     to:
Federal Motorship Corporation, Buffalo NY (home port Buffalo NY)

Entered service 1930

Sold 1948 for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes

Scrapped about 1956 probably in Honduras

 

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