Tashmoo

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Creator: Clary, Jim, Artist
Item Type: Lithographs
Description: Lithograph of the passenger steamer TASHMOO, from a painting by Jim Clary about 1974. Vessel is seen steaming upbound in the St. Clair River, passing St. Clair, Michigan, where Clary maintained a studio for many year.
The Tashmoo was launched at the Detroit Dry Dock Co. yards in Wyandotte, Michigan. Starting in 1900, she ran a regular daytime excursion route from Detroit to resorts along the river north to Port Huron. She grounded near Sugar Island, in the Detroit River, during an evening excursion in 1936. After discharging passengers at nearby Amherstburg, Ontario, the vessel sank at the wharf. During efforts to refloat her, the keel was broken.
Date of Original: ca. 1974
Date Of Event: ca. 1930
Dimensions: Width: 35.5 in
Height: 28.5 in
Subject(s): Tashmoo (steamboat)
Local identifier: 2006.004.150
Collection: Dossin Great Lakes Museum
Language of Item: English
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Lithograph of the passenger steamer TASHMOO, from a painting by Jim Clary about 1974. Vessel is seen steaming upbound in the St. Clair River, passing St. Clair, Michigan, where Clary maintained a studio for many year.
The Tashmoo was launched at the Detroit Dry Dock Co. yards in Wyandotte, Michigan. Starting in 1900, she ran a regular daytime excursion route from Detroit to resorts along the river north to Port Huron. She grounded near Sugar Island, in the Detroit River, during an evening excursion in 1936. After discharging passengers at nearby Amherstburg, Ontario, the vessel sank at the wharf. During efforts to refloat her, the keel was broken.