Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Detroit Marine Historian, v. 40, n. 6 (February 1987), p. 3

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_ 4 NEVADA Photo by Late Ken Smith NEVADA (U.S. 213782), Steel package freighter built by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co. in 1915 for Goodrich Transit Co. 212 x 42 x 25; 2122 gross tons. Intended especially for winter service on Lake Michigan. Sold to Russian Volunteer Fleet in 1916 and renamed ROGDAY. Never reached Russia due to the overthrow of the Imperial Government by the Bolsheviks. Returned to the Great Lakes in 1920 and sailed for the Pere Marquette Line Steamers as NEVADA again. Passed into Wisconsin & Michigan Steamship Company in early Thirties. In 1935 was rebuilt as a trailer transport and thus became America's first Roll-On-Roll-Off Ship. To coast in World War II and foundered in heavy weather 200 miles south of Cape Farewell, Greenland, December 16, 1943. Was owned by U.S. Army when lost. NYACK Ken Smith Collection NYACK (U.S. 130125), Wooden passenger and freight propellor built at Buffalo in 1878 by Union Drydock Co. (Hull #11) for Union Steamboat Line. 231 x 33 x 15; 1257 gross tons. Purchased by Captain Crosby in 1894 and for the next 21 years was the flagship of the fleet. Badly damaged by fire at Muskegon December 30, 1915. Hull sold and later used as a barge. In 1932 was made into a dock at Summer Island, on Green Bay. rs, $5

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