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AMAZON as a barge (above) and as a powered freight- er (right). Rev. Edward J. Dowling SHIPS THAT AMAZON, steel bulk freight barge, NEVER DIE built at South Chicago in 1897 #125 the Chicago Shipbuilding Company (Hull No. 29) for James Corrigan, of Cleveland. Dimensions: 376 X 46 X 25.9,3509 gross tons and 3331 net tons. In her early days she was towed by one of the wooden Corrigan freighters. After 1902 when her sister steel barge, the AUSTRALIA (la- ter S.B.COOLIDGE) was converted into a steamer, AMAZON usually was her consort. In 1908 AMAZON was herself converted into a powered freighter by the installation of the triple expansion engines built by the Dry Dock Engine Works, Detroit, in 1889, for the Corri- Both peer from the collection of the gan wooden freighter ITALIA, Around 1910 AMAZON was listed as being oper- ated by the Australia Transit Co., apparently an affiliate of Hutchinson. In 1915 she pass- ed into Hutchinson's Pioneer Steamship Company. During World War II AMAZON was turned over to the U.S. War Shipping Administration in ex- change for new tonnage. USWSA leased her out to Gartland Steamship Company (Sullivan) for wartime operation. After the war she lay idle for a time and then was again operated, this time by Browning, in the early Fifties. She was scrapped at Lac- kawanna, N.Y. in 1954, The Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S. J. The Marine Historical eering Works, President Charles Haskill. Here it arrives at oar Fort Malden Museum collec- necessary mu: ERIen SaehennS snapped this photograph.