Eddy, Selwyn

1893                                  Selwyn Eddy                                  1916 (1945)

Steel Great Lakes bulk and package freight vessel

Built at Wyandotte MI by Detroit Dry Dock Co., Hull 113
Launched Dec 7, 1892

359’2” LOA, 343’ LBP, 42’ beam, 25’ depth
2 decks, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 1150 IHP

Enrolled at Detroit MI April 18, 1893 (#75)
343.0 x 42.2 x 21.6, 2846.14 GT, 2164.11 NT     US 116555     to:
Detroit Dry Dock Co. (home port Detroit MI)

Reenrolled at Detroit MI April 20, 1893 (Temp #81) to:
Chas A. Eddy et al (home port to Bay City MI)

Entered service 1893

Permanent enrollment at Port Huron MI March 24, 1894 (#74)

Transferred 1898 to John Shaw Transit Co.,      (home port to Fair Haven MI)  (home port transferred 1899 back to Bay City MI)

Sold 1905 to Lake Transit Co., Duluth MN, G. A. Tomlinson, Mgr. (home port to Duluth MN)

Sold 1910 to Lake Steamship Co., Buffalo NY, Boland & Cornelius, Mgr.

Rebuilt to bulk freighter 1913 at Buffalo NY by Buffalo Dry Dock Co.  1 deck, arch construction (no remeasurement)

Sold March 9, 1916 to Coastwise Steamship Co., Boston MA for off-Lakes service.  Cut in two, towed to tidewater and rejoined.

Renamed Hall 1927 and Wellhart 1929

Scrapped 1945

 

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