Maritime History of the Great Lakes

CITY OF TOLEDO

Description
Creator
Stanton, Samuel Ward, Attributed name
Media Type
Image
Item Type
Prints
Description
Sketch of notes on the Great Lakes steamboat CITY OF TOLEDO
Notes
Illustration from Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels, 1895, page 415
Inscriptions

City of Toledo:

Built 1891, at Toledo, Ohio

Hull, of steel. Built by the Craig Shipbuilding Company. Length over all 221 feet; breadth of beam 31 1/2 feet; over guard 58 feet; depth of hold 12 1/2 feet.

Engine, inclined triple expansion, constructed by the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company. Diameter of cylinders 26, 42 and 66 inches, by 6 feet stroke.

Boilers, two, each 21 feet 7 inches in length, by 11 feet in width.

Wheels, feathering buckets

Tonnage, 1003.88 Gross 654 Net

An excellent type of a modern passenger and excursion steamer is the CITY OF TOLEDO, built for the Toledo and Put-in Bay route, Lake Erie.

Used during summer season of 1893 in transporting passengers from Chicago to the World's Fair. The inclined engines put into this boat were the first of the kind ever built for a lake boat. She cost $140,000.

Publisher
Smith & Stanton
Place of Publication
New York
Date of Original
1895
Date Of Event
1891
Subject(s)
Steamboats
City of Toledo (steamboat)
Local identifier
467
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
  • Lake Erie
    Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 42.454166 Longitude: -81.121388
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CITY OF TOLEDO


Sketch of notes on the Great Lakes steamboat CITY OF TOLEDO