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52 PAIPOONGE ex CORONA steel bulk carrier (C 130870 ex U 126505, 1927-40 Latvian ON 105) (Canadian signal letters TPWR, 1940 British signal letters MNZN). 1917-1919. Original US measurement: 2,408.17 gross and 1,828.20 tons net, 292' (between perpendiculars), 312' (overall). Capacity 2,800 tons at 15½' draft. Original Canadian measurement: 2,517.0 tons gross and 1,564.99 tons net, 299.5' (overall). In 1920: 2,545 tons gross and 1,478 tons net, 300.8'. In 1937: 2,439 tons gross and 1,305 net, 299.2'. In 1940: 2,420 tons gross and 1,474 net, 300.8'. Launched 3 pm on 13 June 1888 by Globe Ironworks at Cleveland Ohio. Yard #18. Double bottom. Electric light. Counter stern, straight bow with sheer forward. Four masts. One or two doghouses (sources differ). Pilot house was aft of #1 hatch. Three-cylinder triple expansion = 1,200 indicated horsepower, 191.36 rated horsepower. 1888 value $190,000. 1914 insurance rating = 90/100. 1917 value $220,000. 1918 value $192,500. CORONA's first owner was the Mutual Transportation Co. (M.A. Hanna managers). Her normal employment was in the iron ore trades. She went aground at Grosse Pointe Michigan 2 September 1888. She lost her shoe in this incident and was holed. Twenty-six days later she was aground midchannel in Lake St. Clair and on 14 October 1888 she hit a wharf at Detroit. Two of her four masts were removed in 1889. On 28 September 1890 she was aground at Grosse Isle and was lightered [see definitions] of 406 tons of ore by Detroit River passenger ferries! She was in dry dock during the winter of 1894-95 to be modified with a steel forward deck (she got a slight turtleback) and was to be docked in 1895 because of bottom damage incurred during bad weather in Poverty Passage (Green Bay Lake Michigan). She was in collision with the American schooner SMITH & POST (U 23527, 212 tons gross) in the Detroit River in May 1896. The schooner received $3,000 damage to her port quarter. CORONA went to the Union Dry Dock yard at Buffalo for general repairs in 1897 and that December she was docked in Cleveland to repair bottom damage. She was aground on a shoal near Mackinaw City Michigan in 1898 and got a new funnel that year. By 1912 the doghouse(s) had been removed from her deck, most of the enclosed bulwarks had been replaced by open rails and her after mast had been moved aft of the funnel. She received an enlarged pilot house about 1912. In 1899 National Steel became her owners but in 1901 they were absorbed into US Steel and so her owner became Pittsburgh Steamship Co. On 25 June 1903 she struck Round Island en route from Duluth Minnesota to Ashtabula Ohio in fog. She was lightered [see definitions] of 100 tons of ore and pulled off. On 17 October 1907 she was damaged in a storm of Ashtabula. CORONA struck the middle ground in the St. Clair River 19 July 1912. 69