Itororo

(1920) 1923                                  Itororo                                  1943 (1958)

Steel twin-screw St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter

Built at Elizabeth NJ by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., Hull 2153
Launched 1920
Built for service off the Great Lakes

258’ LOA, 40’ beam, 18’7” depth
1 deck, coal-fired boilers, 2 triple expansion engines, 700 IHP

Enrolled
245.0 x 40.1 x 17.7, 1625 GT, 962 NT     US 223067

Owned in 1923 by Southgate Marine Corporation, Norfolk VA

Entered Great Lakes service Oct 1923 in temporary service in the fall grain trade.

Sold 1926 for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes
Enrolled Canadian at 246.0 x 40.6 x 17.7, 1749 GT, 1372 NT     Can 153066

Sold 1939 to Transit Tankers & Terminals Ltd., Montreal QC (home port to Montreal QC) and returned to the Great Lakes
Converted to tanker and boilers converted to oil firing at Lauzon QC by Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co.

Sold Chilean 1943 for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes

Renamed Don Pancho (Chile) 1940 and Don Jose 1949

Burned March 3, 1958 Tabara Peru

See history in Great Lakes Ships We Remember III p. 136

 

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