City of South Haven

1903                                  City of South Haven                                  1935

Steel Great Lakes passenger and package freight vessel

Built at Toledo OH by Craig Shipbuilding Co., Hull 93
Launched March 21, 1903

260’ LOA, 232’ LBP, 40’ beam, 16’ depth
3 decks, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 2000 IHP

Enrolled at Toledo OH May 25, 1903 (#93)
247.7 x 40.3 x 21.7, 1719 GT, 1169 NT     US 127731     to:
Craig Shipbuilding Co., Toledo OH

Reenrolled at Chicago IL July 6, 1903 (#2) to:
Dunkley-Williams Co., Chicago IL

Sold 1909 to Chicago & South Haven Steamship Co.,

Sold April 1, 1918 for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes

Renamed City of Miami 1919

Sold 1923 to Crosby Transportation Co., Milwaukee WI, renamed E. G. Crosby  (2) and returned to the Great Lakes

Sold 1925 to Wisconsin & Michigan Transportation Co., Milwaukee WI

Apparently did not operate after the 1927 season

Burned Dec 3, 1935 at her dock at Sturgeon Bay WI.  Hull scrapped 1942.

See history in Detroit Marine Historian Sept 1949 (#9)
Also in Great Lakes Ships We Remember p. 131

 

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