Name | Class and type | Owner | In service | Out of service | Fate |
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Cetus | Steel-hulled bulk freight steamship | Interlake Steamship Company | 1903; [b] 1927 [9] [c] | 1923; [8] [d] 1943 | Reconstructed in 1928; traded to the United States Maritime Commission for a new vessel; scrapped 1946. |
SS Charles M. Beeghly | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter [e] | Interlake Steamship Company | 1967 [12] [13] [f] | 1987 | Sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout; repowered in 2009; [12] renamed MV Hon. James L. Oberstar in 2011. [13] |
SS Col. James Schoonmaker | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1969 [g] | 1972 [h] | Sold to Cleveland-Cliffs and renamed SS Willis B. Boyer; [18] retired from service in 1980; renamed SS Col. James M. Schoonmaker in 2011 and now a ship museum in Toledo, Ohio. [19] |
Corvus | Steel-hulled bulk freight steamship | Interlake Steamship Company | 1913 [20] [i] | 1943 | Reconstructed in 1925; traded to the United States Maritime Commission for a new vessel; scrapped 1946. |
Cygnus | Steel-hulled bulk freight steamship | Interlake Steamship Company | 1913 [20] [j] | 1943 | Reconstructed in 1925; traded to the United States Maritime Commission for a new vessel; scrapped 1946. |
SS Cyprus | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Lackawanna Steamship Company [k] | 1907 | 1907 | Foundered October 11, 1907, off Deer Park, Michigan, in Lake Superior. |
E. A. S. Clarke | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1916 [26] [l] | 1970 [30] | Formerly the Interlake vessel H.P. Bope; renamed E.A.S. Clarke in 1916; [26] sold in 1970 to Kinsman Marine Transit Co. [30] and renamed Kinsman Voyager; [31] sold for scrap in 1975 [32] and towed to Hamburg, Germany; used as storage barge and scrapped in Spain in 1978. |
E. G. Grace | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company [34] | 1943 [m] | 1976 | Retired in 1976; scrapped in 1984. |
SS Elton Hoyt 2nd (1906) [n] | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1930 [o] | 1966 | Renamed Alex D. Chisholm in 1952; sold to Medusa Portland Cement in 1966 and renamed Medusa Challenger in 1967; went through several ownership and name changes, and now named St. Mary's Challenger as a self-unloading barge paired with tugboat Prentiss Brown owned by St. Mary's Cement Inc. |
Elton Hoyt 2nd (1952) [p] | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1952 | 1987 | Lengthened by 72 feet (22 m) in 1957; converted to self-unloader in 1980; sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout. |
SS Frank Armstrong | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1943 [45] [q] | 1976 [r] | Converted to oil in 1973; renamed SS Samuel Mather; sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout. |
Frank Purnell (1943; later Steelton) | Flat-deck bulk carrier | Interlake Steamship Company | 1943 [48] [s] | 1966 [49] | Traded to Bethlehem Steel for the Steelton; renamed Steelton in 1966; [49] sold to Medusa Cement in 1978, and renamed C.T.C. No. 1. [t] Depowered in 1982; served as a cement barge until 2009; as of 2020 docked, unused, in Calumet Harbor. [51] |
Frank Purnell (1943; formerly Steelton) | Flat-deck bulk carrier | Interlake Steamship Company [49] | 1966 [49] [u] | 1970 | Sold in 1970 to Oglebay Norton's Columbia Transportation Division and renamed Robert C. Norton; scrapped in 1994. |
H.P. Bope | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1913 [20] [v] | 1916 [26] | Renamed E.A.S. Clarke in 1916. [26] |
Harry Coulby (1927) | Flat-deck bulk carrier | Interlake Steamship Company | 1927 [56] | 1987 | Converted to oil in 1977; sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout; sold to Kinsman Lines, Inc. in 1989 and renamed Kinsman Enterprise; scrapped in 2002. |
SS Herbert C. Jackson | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1959 [59] | 1987 [60] | Sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout. [60] |
SS Hydrus (1913) | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1913 [w] | 1913 [61] | Foundered about November 8, 1913, on the Michigan side of Lake Huron during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. [61] |
Hydrus (1916) | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1916 [x] | 1926 [y] | Sold in 1926 to Paterson Steamships, Ltd.; renamed Windoc in 1927; retired and sold for scrap in 1967. [65] |
SS J. L. Mauthe | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1952 | 1987 | Sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout; converted in 1998 to self-unloading barge Pathfinder. |
MV James R. Barker | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1976 [70] | 1987 [z] | Sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout. |
SS John Sherwin | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1958 | 1987 | Lengthened in 1972; sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout. In long-term lay-up in Detour, Michigan |
Lagonda | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter [aa] | Interlake Steamship Company [75] | 1916 [75] [ab] | 1941 | Sold to the American Steamship Company in 1941; scrapped in 1958. |
MV Mesabi Miner | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1977 [80] | 1987 | Sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout. |
Moses Taylor | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company [75] | 1916 [75] [ac] | 1926 [82] | Sold in 1926 to Paterson Steamships Ltd., [82] named changed to Soodoc, [83] scrapped in 1968. [84] |
Pathfinder | Whaleback steamship | Huron Barge Co. [ad] | 1892 | 1920 | Sold to Nicholson Universal Steamship Company; converted to flat-deck carrier in 1924, sold for scrap in 1933. |
Pegasus | Steel-hulled bulk freight steamship | Interlake Steamship Company | 1916 [90] [ae] | 1943 | Reconstructed in 1925; traded to the U.S. Maritime Commission in 1943; scrapped in 1946. |
Robert R. Rhodes | Wooden bulk steamship | Pickands Mather | 1889 [af] | 1900 [ag] | Wrecked October 24, 1921, after striking the upper gates to Lock 3 in the Welland Canal. |
SS Samuel Mather (1887) | Wooden bulk steamship | Pickands Mather | 1887 [ah] | 1891 | Sank November 21, 1891, in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior, after colliding with the Brazil. |
SS Samuel Mather (1892) | Self-propelled whaleback barge built to carry iron ore. | Pickands Mather | 1892 | 1924 | Refitted as self-unloader in 1923–1924; sank September 21–22, 1924, sank off Thunder Bay Island, Michigan, in Lake Huron. [100] |
SS Samuel Mather (1976) | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1976 [ai] | 1987 | Converted to oil in 1973; sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout; sold for scrap in 1988. |
Saturn | Steel-hulled bulk freight steamship | Interlake Steamship Company | 1916 [aj] | 1943 | Reconstructed in 1913; traded to the U.S. Maritime Commission in 1943; scrapped in 1947. |
Taurus | Steel-hulled bulk freight steamship | Interlake Steamship Company | 1913 [20] [ak] | 1943 | Reconstructed in 1925; traded to the U.S. Maritime Commission in 1943; scrapped in 1946. |
V. H. Ketchum | Wooden bulk steamship | Pickands Mather | 1883 [al] | 1892 [109] [am] | Sold to other investors; [an] last owned by Seither Transit Company; burned in 1905 off Ile Parisienne, Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior. [105] |
Vega | Steel-hulled bulk freight steamship | Interlake Steamship Company | 1916 [90] [ao] | 1943 | Traded to the U.S. Maritime Commission in 1943; scrapped in 1946. |
Venus | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1913 [114] [ap] | 1941 [117] | Reconstructed and fitted with cranes in 1927; leased to Boland & Cornelius in 1941; [117] sold to Lake Shore Steel of Chicago in 1958; [119] scrapped in 1961. |
SS William B. Davock | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company [aq] | 1915 [ar] | 1940 [122] | Foundered November 11, 1940, off Little Sable Point Light on the Michigan side of Lake Michigan. [122] |
MV William J. De Lancey | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1981 [123] | 1987 [as] | Sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout; renamed MV Paul R. Tregurtha in 1990. [124] |
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