Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Iron Barge Transport

Description
Creator
Neff, Charles S., Artist
Media Type
Image
Item Type
Drawings
Notes
The iron barge, Transport; 254 x 45; built 1880. It foundered 21 Sept. 1942, Lake Superior, off Eagle Harbor, Mich. Loaded with pulpwood from Grand Marais, Minn. to Port Huron; with the barge City of St. Joseph, also lost; Roen S. S. Co., owners. Machinery saved and placed in former carferry, Maitland; all equipment was salvaged. See Beers, History of the Great Lakes, Vol. 1, p. 894, and Ship Masters'Assoc. Directory, 1903, Wreck data from Harold H.Neff file, Milwaukee Public Library. Note: Information under sketch might possibly refer to the Transport getting sand or gravel near beach at Two Hearted River, Mich.
Date of Publication
1942
Subject(s)
Transport (Barge)
Donor
John S. Neff
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Copyright Statement
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Iron Barge Transport