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SS Eastland

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Name:Eastland
Owner:Michigan Steamship Company
Route:South Haven, Michigan - Chicago, Illinois
Ordered:October 1902
Builder:Jenks Ship Building Company
Launched:May 6, 1903
Christened:May 1903 by Francis Elizabeth Stufflebeam
Maiden voyage:July 16, 1903
Nickname(s):"Speed queen of the Great Lakes"
Fate:Sold during 1905 to the Michigan Transportation Company
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Name:Eastland
Owner:Michigan Transportation Company
Operator:Chicago-South Haven Line
Route:South Haven – Chicago route
Fate:Sold August 5, 1906, to the Lake Shore Navigation Company of Cleveland, Ohio
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Name:Eastland
Owner:Lake Shore Navigation Company of Cleveland, Ohio
Route:Cleveland-Cedar Point route
Fate:Sold during 1909 to the Eastland Navigation Company of Cleveland, Ohio
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Name:Eastland
Owner:Eastland Navigation Company of Cleveland, Ohio
Route:Cleveland-Cedar Point route
Fate:Sold on June 1, 1914 to the St. Joseph-Chicago Steamship Company of St. Joseph, Michigan.
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Name:Eastland
Owner:St. Joseph-Chicago Steamship Company of St. Joseph, Michigan
Route:St. Joseph, Michigan, to Chicago route
Fate:Raised after accident on October 1915 and sold at auction on December 20, 1915 to Captain Edward A. Evers, sold on November 21, 1917 to the Illinois Naval Reserve.
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Name:USS Wilmette
Acquired:November 21, 1917
Commissioned:September 20, 1918
Recommissioned:
  • June 29, 1920
  • April 9, 1945
Decommissioned:
  • July 9, 1919
  • February 15, 1940
  • November 28, 1945
Renamed:Wilmette on February 20, 1918
Reclassified:
  • gunboat 1918
  • IX-29 on February 17, 1941
Struck:December 19, 1945
Honors and
awards:
Fate:Sold for scrap on October 31, 1946 to Hyman Michaels Company of Chicago and scrapped, scrapping completed in 1947
General characteristics
Class and type:Passenger Ship
Type:Steamship
Tonnage:1,961 gross
Displacement:2,600 (estimated)
Length:265 ft
Beam:38 ft 2 in
Draft:19 ft 6 in
Installed power:
Propulsion:Two shafts
Speed:16.5 knots
Capacity:As Eastland: 2,752 passengers
Complement:As USS Wilmette: 209
Armament:
  • As USS Wilmette:
  • Four 4-inch guns
  • Two 3-inch guns
  • Two 1-pounder guns
Notes:
  • Two funnels
  • Two masts

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