Port Colborne

1909                                  Port Colborne                                  1915 (1917)

 

Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter

 

Built at Wallsend-on-Tyne England by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Hull 847
Launched

257’ LOA, 250’ LBP, 42’5” beam, 19’ depth

1 deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 650 IHP

Enrolled at Newcastle-on-Tyne England
250.0 x 42.5 x 17.8, 1729 GT, 1306 NT     Br 129734     to:
Forwarders Ltd., Kingston ON (home port Newcastle-on-Tyne England)

Entered service 1909

Sold March 10, 1915 to Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Co. for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes.

Wrecked Oct 26, 1917 on a reef near Land’s End on the southwest coast of England.

 

 

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