WESTERN METROPOLIS (US#26531) had been 340x40x14, 1,861 t. as a sidewheeler, one of the largest passenger liners on the lakes. After conversion to a bark in 1862 by F. N. Jones of Buffalo she was 273x40x13, 1,341 tons. The average bark of the era was only about 400 tons, and the largest American...

    I don't believe she ever sailed to Europe. She was operating on the lakes in the summer of '64 and was heavily damaged in a stranding on Skillagallee in late June.