1901                                  Donnacona     1                                  1915 (1915)

Steel Great Lakes bulk freighter

Built at Newcastle England by Wood Skinner & Co., Hull 93
Launched

255’ LOA, 245’ LBP, 42’6” beam, 20’8” depth
1 deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine

Enrolled at Newcastle Eng.
245.0 x 42.6 x 20.8, 1906 GT, 1222 NT     Br 110363     to:
Hamilton & Fort William Navigation Co., Hamilton ON (home port Newcastle Eng.)

Entered Great Lakes service 1901

Fleet merged 1911 into Inland Lines Ltd., Hamilton ON

Converted 1911 to package freighter, 2 decks

Fleet merged 1913 into Canada Steamship Lines, Montreal QC

Chartered 1915 for off-Lakes service during World War I and left the Great Lakes

Foundered Nov 16, 1915 off Azores Islands.  Rudder carried away in storm

See history in Great Lakes Ships We Remember II p. 91

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