Petoskey
Description
- Creator
- Stanton, Samuel Ward, Attributed name
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Prints
- Description
- Sketch and notes on the Great Lakes propeller PETOSKEY
- Notes
- Illustration from Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels, 1895, page 327
- Inscriptions
Petoskey:
Built 1887, at Manitowoc, Wis.
Hull, of wood, constructed by Rand and Burger Length 171 feet 4 inches; breadth of beam 30 feet 3 inches; depth of hold 3 feet
Engine, "Trout" fore and aft compound, built by King Iron Works, Buffalo, NY Diameter of cylinders 20 and 40 inches, by 36 inches stroke.
Boiler, one, 16 feet in length by 10 feet in width.
Tonnage, Gross 770.96 Net 544.51
Built for the freight and passenger traffic on Lake Michigan, in the Seymour Transportation Company's line between Chicago and Harbor Springs, and intermediate points. A staunch and excellent boat for the trade engaged in. Sixty staterooms and sleeping accommodations for two hundred and ten persons. Cabins mahogany finished speed thirteen miles an hour.
- Publisher
- Smith & Stanton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date of Original
- 1895
- Date Of Event
- 1887
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 443
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Michigan, United States
Latitude: 43.68473 Longitude: -86.53036
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Maritime History of the Great LakesEmail:walter@maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca
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