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COARSE FREIGHT WOODEN STEAMER ARGONAUT. BUILT BY THE DETROIT DRY DOCK COMPANY. Yard No. 25. Built in 1873. Length over all............................................................... 224 feet o inches Beam............................................................................ 36 " o " Depth ......................................................................... 22 " o " Gross tonnage 1118.59, net 984.62. Special Features: One of the earliest of the ordinary wooden freight steamers. She is twenty-one years old, and is still rated A2^. '54