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MINNESOTA The Minnesota FLEET Steamship Co. was the carrying cor- poration for the Minnesota Iron Mining Company, organized in the late Eighties by Char- lemagne Tower,Sr. of Philadel- phia, James Pickands and Samuel Mather of Cleveland, and Jay C. Morse of Chicago to mine and market the iron ore from the Vermillion Range in eastern Minnesota. These vessels or- dinarily plied between Two Har- bors, Minn. and lower lake ports. The ships of this fleet : had black hulls, white cabins, Above: The barge MARCIA passing and a black stack with white the THOMAS ADAMS at Soo. triangle and the red letter Below: The steamer MANOLA. "MW." Their port of Registry was Ashtabula, Ohio. In 1900 the Vermillion mines and the Minnesota Fleet became part of the Federal Steel Co.,a holding company organized by Morgan and Gary. A year later Federal was made a part of U.S.Steel Corp., & the Minnesota vessels became part of the Pittsburgh S.S.Co. Below are the ships of this fleet. Names underlined are still in operation. 1890 Str. MANOLA - 310 MARISKA- 310 40 Later Can. eee Wrecked, 1924 40 Later Can. KAMARIS & QUEDOC. MARUBA 3186 40 Scrapped, 1934 MATOA 310 40 L,ter Can. GLENRIG & HUGUENOT, scrapped "37 1891 Str. MARINA 308 Later Can.GEO.A. GRAHAM, lost 1917. MASABA 308 40 To Atlantic Coast, 1917. 1892 Str. MARIPOSA 350 MARITANA 350 1895 Bge. MALTA 302 45 Scrapped, 1946 45 Scrapped, 1946 40 Later Can. str. THUNDER BAY, PINEBRANCH, Brit. EMPIRE STICKLEBACK, and Can.PINE- [Malte lel el el aiteltal & oO BRANCH. MARCIA later MITSCHFIBRE. 1896 Str. MARICOPA 426 x 48 later Can. JO +«GEISTMAN, E.E.JOHNSON, and ALTADOC ii. > RESOLUTE w 8 Lal Py fo} Bge. MANDA 372 x 4h Liter 5 MAGNA 372 x kb MARTHA 372 x 44 Later Can. MAUREEN H, FLORENCE J. and ow 5 1897 Str. MAUNALOA 450 x 50 L,ter Can. MAUNALOA II. 1898 Bge. MAIDA 396 x Bge. MAIA 396 x 1899 Str. PENNSYLVANIA 450 x 50, later MATAAFA MALIETOA 475 x 50 (Last of "Mr ships in Steel Trust fleet) Bge 475 x 50 475 = 50 1900 Bge 475 50 Wrecked, 1905.