SAXON
Description
- Creator
- Stanton, Samuel Ward, Attributed name
- Item Type
- Prints
- Description
- Sketch and notes on the Great Lakes steamboat SAXON
- Notes
- Illustration from Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels, 1895, page 461
- Inscriptions
Saxon
Built 1890, at Cleveland, Ohio, by the Globe Iron Works Co.
Hull, of steel. Length 296 feet; breadth of beam 40 feet 5 inches; depth of hold 21 feet.
Engine, triple expansion Diameter of cylinders 24, 38 and 61 inches, by 42 inches stroke.
Boilers, two, of steel, "scotch" type. Length 12 1/2 feet, diameter 14 feet.
Wheel, four blades, Diameter 14 feet, pitch 17 1/2 feet
Tonnage 2348.43 Gross 1875.23 Net
Owned by the Menominee Transit Company, and built for the ore carrying trade on the Great Lakes. Speed, loaded, 12 1/2 miles per hour, light; 14 miles
- Publisher
- Smith & Stanton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date of Original
- 1895
- Date Of Event
- 1890
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 476
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 42.454166 Longitude: -81.121388
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- Copyright Statement
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- Contact
- Maritime History of the Great LakesEmail:walter@maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca
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