Promise (Ferry), 7 Jan 1892

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Full Text: Detroit, Mich., Jan. 7 - With five boats under way at the different yards of the Detroit Dry Dock Company, they are: No. 108 (PROMISE) for the Detroit Belle Isle and Window Ferry Company, a wooden passenger boat similar in design to those now in this service, 130 feet long, 39 feet wide and 13 feet 8 inches deep ; cost $50,000.
Steamer No. 111 will be built at the upper yard of the Detroit Dry Dock Company, No. 108 at the Clark dry dock yards, and the steel steamers at the Wyandotte plant.
The Marine Review
January 7, 1892

PROMISE Built April 23, 1892 Ferry Propeller - Wood
U. S. No. 150590 473 gt - 295 nt 119.5' x 38.8' x 12'
Broken up at Detroit, Michigan, in 1935.
Detroit/Wyandotte Shipbuilding Master List
Institute for Great Lakes Research
Perrysburg, Ohio
Media Type: Text; Newspaper
Item Type: Clippings
Notes: contract for construction
Date of Original: 1892
Subject(s): Ferries
Promise (ferry)
Local identifier: McN.E.585
Language of Item: English
Donor: William R. McNeil
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