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THE NORTHERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY PART I 1888-1916 By Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. NORTHERN KING (US.130420), steel package freighter built for the fleet by Globe Iron Works at Cleveland in 1888. 399 x 40 x 22, 2476 gross tons. Went into the Great Lakes Transit Corporation merger in 1916. To salt water in 1917. Sold Italian and scrapped in Italy in 1926. Last American owner was Gulf Export & Trading Co. NORTHERN LIGHT (US.130407), steel pack- age freighter similar to NORTHERN KING in details. To Great Lakes Transit Corporation in 1916 and to coast in 1917. Operated out of Mobile, Alabama, in the Twenties. Engines removed in 1928. As a barge foundered off the Florida Keys, 11-8-1930. NORTHERN QUEEN (US.130436), similar in detail to NORTHERN KING. Built in 1889. Sold to Great Lakes Transit Corporation in NORTH WIND 1961 and to U.S. Shipping Board in 1917 and taken to coast. Sold Italian for scrap and scrapped in Italy in 1925. NORTHERN WAVE (US.130437), steel package freighter of the same class as the three described immediately above. Went to salt water in 1917, and later owned in Mobile. Scrapped in Italy in 1926. EMILY P. WEED (US.136129), steel combina- tion freighter built at W. Bay City by F. W. Wheeler & Co. for Woodruff and others of Tonawanda, N.Y. 300 x 41 x 22, 2362 gross tons, Chartered by Northern SS.Co. in the middle Nineties. Later (1897) lengthened 72 feet and renamed SEVONA. Stranded and foundered off Sand Island, Lake Superior, 9-1-1905. Author's Collection a ) s