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THE CROSBY FLEETS - PART 3 By Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. (continued) oO JOHN V. MORAN Author's Collection - Painting by Howard Sprague JOHN V. MORAN (U.S. 76748), Wooden propellor package freighter built at Bay City by F.W. “oe Wheeler & Co. (Hull #44) for Ward's Crescent Transportation Co. 214 x 37 x 23; 1350 gross tons. Purchased by Crosby c. 1898 and sunk in ice on Lake Michigan off Muskegon Harbor, February 7, 1899. NAOMI Ken Smith Collection NAOMI (U.S. 80861), Iron package freighter built in 1881 at Wyandotte by Detroit Dry Dock Co. (Hull #49) for Goodrich Transportation Co. Originally 203 x 35 x 11; 1181 gross tons. Purchased by “ws Crosby in 1894 and would remain in the fleet 34 years. Rebuilt in 1909 at Manitowoc as passenger ship, 209 x 40 x 21; 1921 gross tons and renamed E. G. CROSBY. Sold to coast in 1916 as GEN. ROBERT M. O'REILLY (USQMD). Returned to the Lakes after the war as E. G. CROSBY and later named PILGRIM and WISCONSIN. Foundered in heavy weather off Kenosha, Wisconsin October 29, 1929. Nine lives lost in the sinking. Last owner was Goodrich Transit Co.