1891                                  Virginia     1                                  1918 (1964)

Steel twin-screw Great Lakes passenger vessel

Built at Cleveland OH by Globe Iron Works, Hull 42
Launched May 2, 1891

277’ LOA, 269’ LBP, 38’ beam, 24’ depth
3 decks, 2 coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engines, 2800 IHP

Enrolled at Cleveland OH June 23, 1891 (Temp #145)
269.2 x 38.3 x 12.8, 1606.66 GT, 979.68 NT     US 161654     to:
Goodrich Transportation Co., Milwaukee WI (home port Kenosha WI)

Permanent enrollment at Milwaukee WI July 13, 1891 (#3)

Entered service 1891

Home port to Duluth MN 1906

Sold April 1, 1918 to U. S. Navy for off-Lakes service during World War I and left the Great Lakes.

Renamed U.S.S. Blue Ridge 1918 and  Avalon 1920

Sold for scrap 1964.  Sank enroute to scrapyard

See history in Detroit Marine Historian Feb 1949 (#4)
Also in Great Lakes Ships We Remember p. 387

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