User:GreatLakesShips/sandbox/Overhauls/Archive 26

History
United States
Name	Wisconsin (1881 – 1899) Naomi (1899 – 1910) E.G. Crosby (1910 – 1918) General Robert M. O'Reilly (1918 – 1919) E.G. Crosby (1919 – 1920) Pilgrim (1920 – 1924) Wisconsin (1924 – 1929)
Namesake	State of Wisconsin
Operator	Goodrich Transit Company (1881 – 1883) Grand Haven & Milwaukee Transportation Company (1883 – 1896) Crosby Transportation Company (1896 – 1918) United States Shipping Board (1918 – 1919) Chicago, Racine & Milwaukee Steamship Company (1919 – 1922) Goodrich Transit Company (1922 – 1929)
Port of registry	Duluth, Minnesota
Builder	Detroit Dry Dock Company, Wyandotte, Michigan
Yard number	49
Launched	October 11, 1881
In service	December 1881
Out of service	October 29, 1929
Identification	US official number 80861
Fate	Sank on Lake Michigan
General characteristics
Class and type	Package freighter
Tonnage	1,181.66 GRT 1,020.19 NRT
Length	215 feet (65.5 m) (overall) 203.9 feet (62.1 m)
Beam	35.1 feet (10.7 m)
Depth	11.7 feet (3.6 m)
Installed power	Engine: 1 × 2 cylinder 580 hp (430 kW) 85 rpm fore and aft compound engine Boilers: 1 × 85 pounds per square inch (590 kPa) firebox boiler
Propulsion	1 × fixed pitch propeller
National Register of Historic Places data Wisconsin shipwreck (iron steamer) U.S. National Register of Historic Places Location 6.5 miles (10.5 km) south-southeast of Kenosha, Wisconsin Coordinates 42°31′57.66″N 87°42′31.44″W Built 1881 Architect Detroit Dry Dock Company Architectural style Freighter MPS Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS NRHP reference No. 09000820 Added to NRHP October 7, 2009

History

Background

In 1843, the gunship USS Michigan, built in Erie, Pennsylvania, became the first iron-hulled vessel built on the Great Lakes. In the mid-1840s, Canadian companies began importing iron vessels prefabricated by shipyards in the United Kingdom. However, it would not be until 1862 that the first iron-hulled merchant ship, Merchant, was built on the Great Lakes. Despite the success of Merchant, wooden vessels remained preferable to iron ones until the 1880s, due to their inexpensiveness, and the abundance of timber. In the early 1880s, shipyards around the Great Lakes began to construct iron ships on a relatively large scale; in 1882, Onoko, an iron freighter, temporarily became the largest ship on the lakes. In 1884, the first steel freighters were built on the Great Lakes, and by the 1890s, the majority of ships constructed on the lakes were made of steel.

Sources

• Bowlus, W. Bruce (2010). Iron Ore Transport on the Great Lakes: The Development of a Delivery System to Feed American Industry. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-786433-26-1. Archived from the original on August 14, 2021. Retrieved March 3, 2021.
• Bugbee (1), Gordon P. (1962). "Iron Merchant Ships: An Upper Lakes Centennial – Part One" (PDF). Detroit, Michigan: Great Lakes Maritime Institute. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 13, 2021. Retrieved February 21, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Bugbee (2), Gordon P. (1962). "Iron Merchant Ships: An Upper Lakes Centennial – Part Two" (PDF). Detroit, Michigan: Great Lakes Maritime Institute. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 20, 2021. Retrieved February 21, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Thompson, Mark L. (1994). Queen of the Lakes. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-2393-6. Archived from the original on August 14, 2021. Retrieved February 24, 2021.