Steamer Nebraska
Description
- Creator
- Neff, Charles S., Artist
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Drawings
- Notes
- The wooden steamer, Nebraska was bought in a damaged condition by Samuel Neff & Sons from R.R.Rhodes, Nov. 1901 and sold, June 1902 to J. J. Boland & David O. Hagen, Buffalo, N.Y. Repaired Milwaukee Dry Dock Co.; 1483 tons; built 1867, Cleveland, O., by E. M. Peck; 267 x 35; two steeple compound engines, 18 x 36 x 30, King Iron Works, Buffalo, N.Y. Twin wheels; dotted lines in picture show inside steel arches which replaced wooden arches; package freight; line shafting; aft freight hold. A successful freighter & ran for many years. After the sale, the vessel was renamed Congress & adapted as a lumber carrier. Burned at Manitou Island. Listed Inland Lloyds Vessel Register, 1893; and in Ship Masters' Assoc. Directory, 1903, under both names.
- Date of Original
- drawn 24 November 1935
- Date Of Event
- 1901-2
- Subject(s)
- Language of Item
- English
- Donor
- John S. Neff
- Creative Commons licence
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- Contact
- Maritime History of the Great LakesEmail:walter@maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca
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