Manitowoc

1926                                  Manitowoc

 

Steel twin-screw crossriver railroad carferry (2 propellers at each end of the vessel)

 

Built at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corporation, Hull 222
Launched

371’ LOA, 348’ LBP, 65’ beam, 21’6” depth

1 deck, coal-fired boilers, 2 compound engines, 5200 IHP

Enrolled at
358.0 x 65.1 x 19.4, 3093 GT, 1391 NT     US 225671     to:
Wabash Railway Co., Detroit MI (home port Detroit MI)

Fleet sold 1964 to Norfolk & Western Railway Co., Detroit MI

Converted to barge 1969 at Detroit MI

Retired Nov 1994 when cross-Detroit River railroad carferry service was discontinued with the opening of a new larger railroad tunnel between Detroit MI and Windsor ON.  Vessels towed to Toledo OH and laid up.

 

IMO 5219486

 

At Marinette WI 2011 as a transfer vessel

 

 

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