SS City of Alpena
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| Name: | SS City of Alpena |
| Owner: | The Goodrich Line |
| Port of registry: |
 United States |
| Builder: | Detroit Dry Dock Co. at Wyandotte |
| Completed: | 1880 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1957 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Paddlewheel steamship |
| Length: | 285 ft |
| Installed power: | 2,000-horsepower steam engines |
| Capacity: | 400 passengers and cargo |
The SS City of Alpena I a sidewheel steamer was built as the City of Cleveland by the Detroit Dry Dock Co. at Wyandotte in 1880, for the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation Company (D&C)[1]:147 incorporated in 1868.[1]:153 Launched in Jan 1880. Renamed in 1886 as the SS City of Alpena. Later in 1892 renamed again as the State of Ohio.[2] Her sister ship the City of Mackinac was built in 1883.[1]:147
City of Alpena I[edit]
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Designed by Frank F. Kirby.[1]:156 Launched sideways; machinery in January 1880.[2] Official No.: 125808.[2] When built she incorporated innovations making her capable of 20 miles per hour, at that time making her the fastest boat in America.[1]:155
Her purpose was to service Mackinac Island as flagship in a new venture. The service was a success and her sister Mackinac would soon join her in 1883.[1]:155
When in 1886 Detroit & Cleveland (D&C) built a new improved version of the ship they decided to name it the City of Cleveland the second of that name, so our 'City of Cleveland was renamed City of Alpena I. Some sources say she is the second of the name, however the earlier ship referred to was actually named just Alpena, as testified on her paddlebox.[1]:147[1]:155 That Alpena was built in 1866, and lost in 1880.[3] In 1892 the General Manager Carter proposed selling the Alpena I and her sister the Mackinac to partly fund the building of two new steamers, and so they were sold to the Cleveland & Buffalo company (C&B) for $270,000. The City of Alpena I was renamed State of Ohio, and her sister the City of Mackinac I was renamed State of New York.[1]:156[4]
The State of Ohio, destroyed by fire at Cleveland on 20 May 20, 1924. The ship burned to a total loss at her dock and one or two crew members reportedly perished. The iron hull was rebuilt as a bulk freight barge, sunk at the end of the season on 17 Dec 1929, at Lorain, Ohio.[5][2]
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City of Alpena II[edit]
The money from the sale of the earlier boats was used to buy in two new bottoms from the Detroit Dry Dock and Kirby. They were both delivered in 1893 at a cost of $564,000 and promptly named City of Alpena and City of Mackinac With their coming the line extended the route from Detroit and Toledo.[1]:156,157[6]
This new City of Alpena II and her sister were paddlewheel steamboats, operated by the (D&C) Line out of Detroit, and Mackinac Island from 1893 to 1921. serving ports all over Lake Erie. The Alpena II and her sister the City of Mackinac II were 285 ft (87 m) long and powered by 2,000 hp (1,500 kW) steam engines. They carried up to 400 passengers along with cargoes of “package freight”, merchandise and foodstuffs for local communities, linking them to the big cities of Toledo, Detroit and Saginaw, the Alpena was taken off the Coast Line to Mackinac in 1921 when the lumbering industry had shifted to the West Coast and railroads started to connect the towns in the region.[7]
The (D&C) had been losing money on this their Grand Rapids Short Line, $3000,000 on the Huron division and in 1911 decided to sell the two ships on it. The City of Alpena II and her sister the City of Mackinac II were sold to the G&M to replace the Holland and Puritan for use on the Grand Rapids line.
City of Alpena II was renamed City of Saugatuck, and her sister the City of Mackinac II was renamed City of Holland. The G&M paid $87,500 each for them.
She later operated on Lake Michigan as the City of Saugatuck, and ended up in the late 1930s as a barge, carrying pulpwood, and later petroleum products. She was sent to a breakers yard in 1957 for scrap.[7]
Her engine and paddle wheels were recycled from the USS United States 1847.[5]
Postage stamp[edit]
The ship features on postage stamp set issued for the Centenial of Pan-American Exposition (1 May 1901- 2 November 1901), held in Buffalo, New York, which highlighted advancements of the nineteenth century in industry, transportation, manufacturing, and the arts; the Alpena on the 1 cent stamp, and the SS Saint Paul (1895) on the 10 cent were chosen, as ships for the set.[9][10]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Stone, Joel (2015). Floating Palaces of the Great Lakes: A History of Passenger Steamships on ... University of Michigan Press. ISBN 047205175X. Retrieved 19 August 2018. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "City of Cleveland (1880, Steamer)". greatlakeships.org. Alpena County, George N. Fletcher Public Library. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- ↑ "Alpena I". michiganshipwrecks.org. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ↑ The Mackinac had a song written for her celebrating her race with the "Darius Cole" from the mouth of the St. Clair River to Detroit.Walton, Ivan; Grimm, Joe (2002). Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors. Wayne State University Press. p. 110. ISBN 0814329977. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
Song: The Darius Cole and Mackinac
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- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Donahue, John. "The Ship With Three Names". perdurabo10.tripod.com. Donahue. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- ↑ "Steamer City of Alpena". Alpena Argus. newspapers.com. 5 July 1893. p. 3. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Labadie, C. Patrick. "Steamer City of Alpena". alpenalibrary.org. Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- ↑ Hilton, George Woodman (2002). Lake Michigan Passenger Steamers. Stanford University Press. p. 216. ISBN 0-8047-4240-5. Retrieved 19 August 2018. Search this book on
- ↑ "Up Centenial of Pan-American Exposition Invert Stamps". arago.si.edu. Smithsonian - National Postal Museum. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
the 1-cent stamp depicting the steamship, "City of Alpena"
- ↑ Dunn, John F. (2003). "Yesterday in U.S. Stamp News: The 1901 Pan American Expo Issue, Pt. 1" (PDF). stampnewsonline.net. U.S. Stamp News, March 2001-February 2003). Retrieved 19 August 2018.
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