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ENSIGN FLEETS, Cont'd. TOPS A pI IRON CITY (us. 12092), wooden propellor built in Cleveland by Quayle & eae in 1856. Apparently chartered by Ensign in early 1860s. 183 x 12. Engines removed in 1872. As barge, foundered on L.Erie, §-35- 1873: JAVA (US.75288), iron propellor, built in 1873 at Buffalo by Gibson and Craig. 231 x 35 x 13. Foundered on Lake Michigan, August, 1878. KENOSHA (US.47013), wooden propellor built by Moses at Cleveland in '56. 645 gross tons. Burned near Sarnia, 10-26-1864. Hull rebuilt as a barge. Listed in U.S.Merchant Vessels through 1888. NEBRASKA iss #093) 3 wooden propellor built by E.M.Peck at Cleveland in 1867. x 36 x 25. Rebuilt several times and renamed CONGRESS in 1902. Bisaed a Manitou Islands, L.Michigan, 10-4-1904 NILE, wooden propellor built at Cleveland in 1852 by diacie & Moses. destroyed by internal explosion at Detroit, 5-21-1864. 13 lives. ONEIDA (US. 4aeie) » wooden propellor built by W.Crosthwaite at Buffalo in 1862. 200 x x 12. Later sailed in the Western Trans. Co. Burned and sunk on fens Erie, 1893. ORTON SOR (US.18963), wooden propellor, 1856 Buffalo by Bidwell & Banta. 172 30 x 10. Ip Ensign Line briefly then in Leopold & Austrian's Lake Coes Lyne out of Chicago. Burned on St.Clair R.,9-25-1883. PITTSBURGH (us. 19617), wooden propellor built by Moses in Cleveland in 1856. 186 x 28 x 1l. Wrecked in 1881 but recovered and complete- ly Sabie as Benes CYCLONE (US.34114). Lasted until late 1880s. PLYMOUEH (US.19621), wooden propellor built by LaF anier at Cleveland 1854. 213 x 35 x 13. Rated as the largest ¥Vessel on the Great Takes as of 1854. Reduced to a barge around 1880 and engines put into OREGON. Foundered on Lake Michigan near Gull Ig@land in 1913. ee aie 19618) ,wooden profellor built by Moses at Cyeveland in 1855. x 34 x 13. Later sailed for the American Trans Co. and the peel Trans Co. E gines removed in 1885. Hull abandoned, 1899. QUEEN OF THE LAKES (US. 20508), wooden propellor built at Black River,Q. ~W.dones. 164 x 26 x 11. Later sailed for the American Trans Go. Desbroyed by fire at Marquette: 6-12-1869. (See P.4)