Perseus (Propeller), U202475, 1914

At the plant of the Great Lakes Engineering Works at Port Huron, work on the new Gilchrist steamer GEORGE H. RUSSEL, is being pushed to completion with dispatch. It is hoped to get the RUSSEL ready in ten days, when she will go to Lake Superior for ore. The steamer HECKER, also building at this yard for the Gilchrist Company is getting along nicely, and will probably be ready to sail by the first of September.
      Buffalo Evening News
      July 7, 1905

     

Steam screw PERSEUS.* U. S. No. 202475. Of 4,978 tons gross; 3,770 tons net. Built at St. Clair, Mich., in 1905. Home port, Cleveland, Ohio. 462.0 x 50.0 x 24.0 and a crew of 22. Of 1,600 indicated horse power. Freight service. Steel Built.
* formerly steam screw FRANK J. HECKER.
      Merchant Vessel List, U.S., 1914
     
     

      Steam screw FRANK J. HECKER. U.S. No. 202475. Of 4,978 tons gross; 3,770 tons net. Built at St. Clair, Mich., in 1905. Home port, Cleveland, Ohio. 462.0 x 50.0 x 24.0 and a crew of 21. Freight service. Steel built. Of 1,600 indicated horse power.
      Merchant Vessel List, U.S., 1911.
     


      FRANK J. HECKER, U.S. 202475, bulk carrier. Renamed PERSEUS 1913, foundered about 90 miles NNW of Fayal, in Atlantic Ocean, after breaking away from tug ENGLISHMAN, while in tow for scrapping at Genoa, Italy; September 21, 1961.
      Record of Great Lakes Engineering
      Works, St. Clair (Michigan) Yard

     

FRANK J. HECKER.* Built Sept. 2, 1905 Bulk Carrier
U.S. No. 202475. 4978 gt - 2770 nt 462.0 x 50.0 x 24.0
      * Renamed [b] PERSEUS - U.S. - 1913
Foundered c.90 miles NNW of Fayal, in Atlantic Ocean, after breaking away from tug ENGLISHMAN, while in tow for scrapping at Genoa, Italy; September 21, 1961.
      Great Lakes Emgineering Works, St. Clair, Mich., Master Shipbuilding list
      Institute for Great lakes Research
      Perrysburg, Ohio