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"Sunday Nov. 20, 1938
Rear end view of
S.S. Carrollton a
co[n]verted car ferry
form[er]ly
Marquette & Bessember no 2.[sic]"
First of two photos of this ship. Her launch name was Marquette and Bessemer, without a number designation. No. 1 (not 2) was added to her name when a second, larger, vessel was added to the fleet soon thereafter, an event contemporary newspaper accounts were anticipating even before this ship was launched. Neither of Mr. Borucki's Carrollton photographs is very specific about the location, but I'm assuming they were shot in the Bay City vicinity.
This oddly-configured vessel was built pretty much as she appears in this photograph. During construction, in 1903 and 1904 at Buffalo, she was referred to as a car ferry, but seems never to have actually functioned as such; instead, she spent the first 25 years of her career hauling coal around Lake Erie. She graduated to general lakes shipping carrying pig iron and sand in the late 1920s. Carrollton delivered her last load in 1958, and was partially dismantled at Duluth in 1960. Her hull remained visible in Duluth harbor until 1969, when scrapping was apparently completed.
Greenwood's Namesakes 1956-1970 believes the odd ferry-dock stern facilitated loading for the coal trade, which may have been true. The same source indicates that she was named after Carrollton, Michigan.
Borucki's Lakers
Rear end view of
S.S. Carrollton a
co[n]verted car ferry
form[er]ly
Marquette & Bessember no 2.[sic]"
First of two photos of this ship. Her launch name was Marquette and Bessemer, without a number designation. No. 1 (not 2) was added to her name when a second, larger, vessel was added to the fleet soon thereafter, an event contemporary newspaper accounts were anticipating even before this ship was launched. Neither of Mr. Borucki's Carrollton photographs is very specific about the location, but I'm assuming they were shot in the Bay City vicinity.
This oddly-configured vessel was built pretty much as she appears in this photograph. During construction, in 1903 and 1904 at Buffalo, she was referred to as a car ferry, but seems never to have actually functioned as such; instead, she spent the first 25 years of her career hauling coal around Lake Erie. She graduated to general lakes shipping carrying pig iron and sand in the late 1920s. Carrollton delivered her last load in 1958, and was partially dismantled at Duluth in 1960. Her hull remained visible in Duluth harbor until 1969, when scrapping was apparently completed.
Greenwood's Namesakes 1956-1970 believes the odd ferry-dock stern facilitated loading for the coal trade, which may have been true. The same source indicates that she was named after Carrollton, Michigan.
Borucki's Lakers
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