Hanna, D.B.

1925                                  D. B. Hanna                                   1940 (1941)

Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter

Built at Haverton Hill-on-Tees England by Furness Shipbuilding Co., Hull 91
Launched

261’ LOA, 253’ LBP, 43’2” beam, 20’ depth
1 deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 850 IHP

Enrolled at
252.5 x 43.2 x 17.8, 1780 GT, 1285 NT     Br 147780     to:
Toronto Insurance & Vessel Agency Ltd., Toronto ON, James B. Foote, Mgr. (home port Middlesboro England)

Entered service 1925

Transferred 1929 to Union Transit Co.

Sold 1939 to Paterson Steamships Ltd., Fort William ON and renamed Collingdoc  (1)
Enrollment transferred to Canada     Can 147780     (home port to Fort William ON)

Requisitioned 1940 for off-Lakes service during World War I and left the Great Lakes

Struck mine July 13, 1941 off Southard Pier England and sank.  Hull raised and sunk as a blockship off Brest France.

See history in Great Lakes Ships We Remember II p. 140

 

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