City of Buffalo

1896                                  City of Buffalo                                  1938

Steel sidewheel overnight passenger vessel

Built at Wyandotte MI by Detroit Dry Dock Co., Hull 121
Launched Dec 24, 1895

317’3” LOA, 298’ LBP, 41’ beam, 27’4” depth
2 decks, coal-fired boilers, compound beam engine, 5500 IHP

Enrolled at Detroit MI May 5, 1896 (Temp #125)
298.3 x 75.0 x 17.0, 2398.27 GT, 1262.83 NT     US 127132     to:
Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co., Cleveland OH, T. F. Newman, Mgr. (home port Cleveland OH)

Permanent enrollment at Cleveland OH May 7, 1896 (#99)

Entered service 1896

Lengthened 1904
Remeasured to 340.3 x 43.7 x 17.0, 2940 GT, 1604 NT

Firm reincorporated 1928 in Delaware (home port to Wilmington DE)

Burned March 19, 1938 during winter layup at E. 9th Street pier, Cleveland OH.  Hull towed to Detroit and scrapped in 1940.

See history in Detroit Marine Historian Nov 1955 (#69)
Also in Great Lakes Ships We Remember p. 98

 

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