Stewart, Donald

1923                                  Donald Stewart                                  1941 (1942)

Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter

Built at South Bank-on-Tees England by Smith’s Dock Co., Hull 779
Launched April 14, 1923

261’ LOA, 250’ LBP, 42’9” beam, 18’6” depth
1 deck, hatches @ 16’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 828 IHP

Enrolled at Middlesborough England
250.0 x 42.7 x 16.1, 1781 GT, 1074 NT     Br 147765     to:
Bruce Trading Co., Toronto ON, J. F. M. Stewart, Mgr. (home port Middlesbrough England)

Sold 1927 to International Waterways Navigation Co., Montreal QC (home port to Montreal QC)
Enrollment transferred to Canada      Can 147761

Sold 1929 to Canada Steamship Lines, Montreal QC

Requisitioned 1941 for off-Lakes service during World War II and left the Great Lakes

Sunk Sept 3, 1942 by German submarine, Gulf of St. Lawrence

See history in Scanner April 1982 (#110)
Also in Great Lakes Ships We Remember II p. 333

 

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