Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Marine Review (Cleveland, OH), November 1920, p. 603

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Motorship Tan- carville from which tier gaiter tier of iron plates were re- moved while the ship occupied the large dock of the Morse Drydock & Repair Co. She is one of the few iron ships still in service Largest passenger liner in the world, the Leviathan, after an expensive year of idleness. She has been tied up at Hobo- ken since bringing home General Pershing. Her sale to American shipping companies has been delayed by injunction and by indecision on the part of the shipping board. In view of the estimated refitting cost of $8,000,000, bids are now proving difficult to obtain A hole 25 feet in length was torn in the bow of the Tunisian, Canadian Pacific Ocean Serv- ices, recently in collision with a freighter in the St. Lawrence. No lives were lost. It was the only accident of the season on the St. Lawrence The Pattersonian, a steel coasting steamer of fie type being acquired by British manu- facturers to cope with the traffic congestion on English railways. This vessel, 135 feet long and 23%4 feet beam, 350 deadweight tons, is owned by a large foundry company at Newcastle. She plys between London and the Tyne. During the war she sank an enemy submarine 693

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