Metropolis (Steamboat), U17608, fire, 13 Jun 1902
- Full Text
The old sidewheeler METROPOILIS was burned to the water's edge at Toledo on Friday.
Port Huron Daily Times
A crew of divers yesterday morning raised the passenger steamer METROPOLIS, once the pride of the lakes, from the bottom of the river at Detroit [?] where she has been all winter. Her hul will be used as a scow to carry stone.
Buffalo Evening News
June 13, 1903
Steam paddle METROPOLIS. U.S. No. 17608. Of 425 tons gross;321 tons net. Built at Trenton, Mich., 1868. Home port, Detroit.
168.3 x 6.4 x 8.1
Merchant Vessel List, U. S., 1899
- Media Type
- Text
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Clippings
- Notes
- Reason: fire
Lives: nil
Remarks: Raised ??
- Date of Original
- 1902
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- McN.W.24477
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ohio, United States
Latitude: 41.66394 Longitude: -83.55521
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- Donor
- William R. McNeil
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