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- 86 Telescope By Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S. J. ROCHESTER (US 207073, later Can. 141863) was a steel, twin-screw freight and passenger vessel built at Wyandotte by Detroit Shipbuilding Company (hull #180) for the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company of U. S. A. Her original route was between Niagara and the Thousand Islands via Rochester and Oswego. Dimensions, 246 x 42 x 15,1603 gt, 867 nt. Her propulsion was provided by two four-cylinder triple-exp. engines 16"-25"-31"-31" x 22" stroke, built by the shipyard. When Canada Steamship Lines took over Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. in 1914, ROCHESTER was transferred to other routes. She was chartered in 1916 to Indiana Transportation Company of Chicago for Lake Michigan service. ROCHESTER was transferred to Canadian registry in 1918 and shortly thereafter renamed CAPE ETERNITY, being used in cruise service on the Saguenay and St. Lawrence rivers. CSL sold her in the middle 1930s to Seaway Lines of Windsor, Ont., and as GEORGIAN she ran between Windsor and Georgian Bay. She saw some government service in World War II, and in 1946 was sold to Chinese buyers and renamed HA SIN. As far as we know she is still in service on the Yangtze River. Our illustration below (Simonson photo) shows ROCHESTER at Saugatuck, Michigan, around 1915. Launch of ROCHESTER, Wyandotte, 1910. Photograph courtesy of Richard J. Wright. THE BIG SPLASH