1922                                  Chicago Tribune     1                                  1940 (1940)

Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter

Built at Wallsend-on-Tyne England by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Hull 1187
Launched

258’ LOA, 250’ LBP, 42’10” beam, 19’4” depth
1 deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 800 IHP

Enrolled at London England
250.0 x 43.1 x 16.9, 1689 GT, 987 NT     Br 146589     to:
Ontario Transportation & Pulp Co., Thorold ON (home port London England)

Entered service 1922

Transferred 1923 to Chicago Tribune Transportation Co.

Enrollment transferred to Canada 1925     Can 146589     (home port Montreal QC)

Transferred 1928 to Quebec & Ontario Transportation Co.

Renamed Thorold  (2) 1933

Requisitioned by Canadian government for off-Lakes service during World War II and left the Great Lakes

Sunk Aug 22, 1940 by enemy action in English Channel

See history in Scanner Feb 1985 (#135)

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