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NORTH SEA (US.206229), steel package freighter built for the fleet by Great Lakes Engineering Works, at Ecorse in 1909. 351 x 46 x 31, 4113 gross tons. Operated by Mutual for Northern SS.Co. until 1916 when it became part of the Great Lakes Transit Corporation. Renamed EDWARD CHAMBERS in 1926. To salt water during World War I and scrapped at Seattle in 1952. Last owner was Polar Trading & Packing Co., of Seattle. NORTH STAR (US.130435), steel package freighter built in 1889 for the fleet by the Globe Iron Works, Cleveland. 299 x 40 x 22, 2476 gross tons. Sunk, in collision with sister ship NORTHERN QUEEN, on Lake Huron off Port Sanilac, 11-24-1908. NORTH STAR (US.207011), steel package freighter built in 1909 for the fleet at St. Clair by Great Lakes Engineering Works. 350 x 46 x 31, 4011 gross tons. Built as replacement for the NORTH STAR described above. Later H. A. SCANDRETT, 1928. To salt water for World War Il. Later Finnish HAMINA. Scrapped in Europe in the late Fifties. NORTH WEST (US.130661), steel passenger liner built for the fleet by Globe Iron Works, Cleveland in 1894. 358 x 44 x 23, 4244 gross tons. Badly damaged by fire in winter of 1910 and never rebuilt. To coast in 1916 and rebuilt as freighter with new bow and renamed MAPLECOURT. Back to Lakes between the wars and to salt water in World War I. Lost by enemy action, 300 miles west of Hebrides Islands, North Atlantic, 2-7-1941. NORTH WIND (US.130413), steel package freighter built by Globe Iron Works at Cleveland for the fleet in 1888. 299 x 40 x 22, 2476 gross tons. To salt water in 1917 and back to Lakes c.1920. Stranded and foundered on Robinson Shoal, Georgian Bay, 7-1-1926. Last owner was Buckeye Steamship Co., Cleveland. It is believed that there were more chartered vessels than those mentioned above. Information in this regard will be welcomed by the Editor and the Author. NORTHERN KING -3- Collection of Robert A. Zeleznik