Cartagena

1901                                 Cartagena                                 1907 (1907)

Wooden Great Lakes bulk freighter

Built at West Bay City MI by James Davidson, Hull 94
Launched Nov 10, 1900

250’ LOA, 40’ beam, 25’5” depth
1 deck, coal-fired boiler, triple expansion engine, 800 IHP

Enrolled at Port Huron MI May 8, 1901 (#64)
241.0 x 40.0 x 19.8, 1532 GT, 1418 NT     US 127526     to:
James Davidson, West Bay City MI

Entered service 1901

Transferred 1899 to Davidson Steamship Co., Duluth MN, G. A. Tomlinson, Mgr. (home port to Duluth MN)

Sold 1907 for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes.

Stranded July 1, 1907 on Salvage Rocks off Cape Negro NS.  Enroute from Huron OH to Boston MA with cargo of coal, stranded in fog.  No lives lost.  Enrollment surrendered July 15, 1907 at Boston MA.

 

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