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Page 87 A CLASSIC CLASS by GARY DEWAR Part IV J.E. Upson (US 205033). February 29, 1908, Cleveland: American Shipbuilding (441). 524'0" x 54'0" x 30'21/4" (504.0 x 54.0 x 30.0). 6309 GT; 4853 NT. Engine and boilers same as Sylvania. The J.E. Upson spent all sixty years of her career in The Wilson Transit Company's fleet. She was given new oil-fired water tube boilers in 1952, and alteration made at the time changed her tonnages slightly, to 6302 gross and 4856 net. She was transferred with the rest of the Wilson vessels at the start of 1957 to the new Wilson Marine Transit, but on April 9th was sold to the Lake Fleet Division of the Republic Steel Corporation, of which Wilson assumed operation that season. Republic sold the Upson in 1969 to Sea-Land Service, Inc., of Elizabeth, N.J., to be traded to the Maritime Administration. During the same year, she was sold to the Oxford Shipping Corporation, of New York, and then to Recuperaciones Submarinas, and was towed into Santander in September. Fred G. Hartwell (i) (US 204987). April 4, 1908, Toledo: Toledo Shipbuilding (112). 524'0" x 58'0" x 30'0" (514.0 x 58.0 x 25.6). 6223 GT; 4865 NT. Capacity and engine same as John Dunn, Jr. Three Scotch boilers, 12'6" x 10'9". The Hartwell was placed into service in June, by the Mutual Steamship Company, of Duluth, another of G.A. Tomlinson's companies. She was driven ashore near Iroquois Point, in Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior on November 10, 1913, while downbound with iron ore. She was released within a week, buthad sustained about $65,000 in damage. She was sold in November of 1916 to the The J.E. UPSON spent her entire 60-year career in The Wilson Transit Company fleet. Dossin Museum Coll.