Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Marine Review (Cleveland, OH), December 1927, p. 77

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Toledo Shipbuilding Comment Inc. TOLEDO - OHIO Builders of the World’s Record Cargo Ship Steamer Wiles K. ei : 604 ft. Long, 60 ft. Beam, 32 ft. Depth. Deadweight Tonnage 1/2000. VER half a million tons of freight carried—forty six cargoes of ore and coal delivered in seven months: and seventeen days by the steamer William K. Field. This remarkable performance earned her the title, “Champion Freight Carrier of the World’. During the season 1924 on the Great Lakes she registered a total of 552,014 tons. complishment! The William K. Field is owned and operated by Reiss Steamship Company, Cleveland, Ohio. Her type of construc- tion permits rapid loading and discharge of cargo. This was an _ important factor in her record breaking perform- ance. An unprecedented ac- Builders and Repairers of Ships and Engines MARINE REVIEW—December, 1927

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