Neepawah

1903                                  Neepawah                                  1915 (1917)

Steel St. Lawrence Canal size package freighter

Built at Greenock Scotland by Grangemouth & Greenock Dry Dock Co., Hull 245
Launched

251’6” LOA, 244’ LBP, 39’10” beam, 21’8” depth
2 decks, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 1150 IHP

Enrolled at Port Glasgow Scotland
244.5 x 40.0 x 21.8, 1799 GT, 1190 NT     Br 102579     to:
New Ontario Steamship Co., Montreal QC, R. O. & A. B. Mackay, Mgrs. (home port Port Glasgow Scotland)

Entered Great Lakes service 1903

Sold 1909 to Neepawah Steamship Co., Hamilton ON
Enrolled Canadian     Can 102579     (home port to Hamilton ON)

Fleet merged 1914 into Canada Steamship Lines, Montreal QC

Chartered 1915 for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes.

Sunk April 22, 1917 in air raid

 

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