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Created: 2018-11-04 9:21:55 PM
Last Edited: 2024-12-29 4:19:05 PM

IMO:

5175707

Details/Construction
Builder:	Great Lakes Engineering Works	Location:	River Rouge, Michigan, United States	Hull #:	248
Keel Layed:	1924/06/02	Launched:	1924/10/18	Commissioned:	1925/04

Propulsion
Year: 1965	Type:	1 Enterprise DMRV-12-4 12-cylinder diesel engine	Output:	4000 bhp (2942 kW) - 11.5 knots
	Manufacturer:	General Metals Corporation - San Francisco, California, USA

Owner History

Fleet History

Owner	Manager	From	Until
Columbia Steamship Company - Cleveland, Ohio, USA		1925/04	1931/11
Columbia Transportation Company - Cleveland, Ohio, USA		1931/11	1957/10
Oglebay Norton Company - Cleveland, Ohio, USA		1957/10	2003/01
Great Lakes Associates Inc.		2003/01	2006/01

Fleet	From	Until
Columbia Steamship Company - Cleveland, Ohio	1925/04	1957/10
Oglebay Norton Company - Cleveland, Ohio	1957/10	2003/01
Kinsman Marine Transit Company - Cleveland, Ohio	2003/01	2006/01

Name History

Registration History

Name	Until
Joseph H. Frantz	2006/01

Number	Port	Call Sign	MMSI	From	Until
US 224409	Wilmington, Delaware, United States	WA6575		1931/11	2006/01

Description

Re-engined in 1955. Re-engined again in 1965 and converted to a self unloader (from 8289gt/15000dw)

Disposition
Description/Location	Scrapped at Port Colborne, Ontario by International Marine Salvage
Arrival at Yard	2005/04/29	Beached:	Work Began:
Lost			Date: