Rahane

1924                                  Rahane                                  1965 (1971)

 

Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter

 

Built at Newcastle-on-Tyne England by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Hull 1241
Launched

261’ LOA, 248’ LBP, 43’ beam, 25’ depth

1 deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 1050 IHP

Enrolled at
248.0 x 43.0 x 22.8, 2222 GT, 1350 NT     Br 148089     to:
Rahane Steamship Co., Montreal QC, Crawford & Co., Mgr. (home port Newcastle-on-Tyne England)

Entered service 1924

Sold 1930 to Canadian Terminal System Ltd., Toronto ON

Sold 1933 to Sarnia Steamships Ltd., Port Colborne ON
Enrollment transferred to Canada     Can 148089     (home port to Sarnia ON)

Sold 1939 to Northwest Steamships Ltd., Toronto ON and renamed A. A. Hudson.

Home port to Toronto ON 1951

Laid up at the end of the 1962 season at Owen Sound ON and did not operate again

Sold 1965 to Hudson Shipping & Trading Ltd., Nassau B.W.I. for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes.

Renamed Hudson Trader (Br 148089) 1965 and (Panama 7011) 1967

Scrapped 1971 at Jacksonville FL (had been laid up there since 1967 for non payment of dockage fees)

 

IMO 5000029

 

 

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