Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Detroit Marine Historian, v. 34, n. 7 (March 1981), p. 3

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TOLEDO (US. 24112), wooden propellor, built at Cleveland by Peck and Masters in 1862 for the Buffalo & Toledo Transportation Co.: 179' x 31' x 10's; 792 gross tons. Chartered to the Lackawanna Railroad in the early 1880's, possibly the first ship of the line. TOLEDO was later lost by stranding near the Portage Entry on Lake Superior October 29, 1898. WYOMING (US. 81150), wooden pocee freighter built at Buffalo in 1887 by Robert Mills & Co. for the fleet: 241 40' x 15'; 1,952 gross tons. Fore and aft com- pound engines for WYOMING were Baie by the Frontier Engine Works at Buffalo. The ship was chartered to other owners during much of the early 1900's and was sold in 1907 and cut down to a lumber steam barge (1,488 gross tons). Sold Canadian in 1920 and renamed MAPLEGLEN (C. 141589). Abandoned and scuttled on Lake Cae in eee (Note: WYOMING was a very near sister ship to FLORIDA.) iat LACKWANNA downbound on the St. Mary's River. Fanjoy Photo RUSSIA in later years, showing one central stack Young Photo instead of two stacks, side by side. 2°35

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