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SS North American

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Ship country=United States

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Ship name=North American

Ship operator=Chicago, Duluth & Georgian Bay Transit Company

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Ship builder=*Great Lakes Engineering Works

Ecorse, Michigan

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Ship launched=16 January 1913

Ship completed=1914

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Ship out of service= 1964

Ship fate=Sank 4 September 1967

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Ship class= Passenger

Ship tonnage=2317.00 gross^[1]

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18.25|ft|m|abbr=on}} ^[1]

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North American was a Great Lakes steamship built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works at Ecorse, Michigan, in 1913 for the Chicago, Duluth & Georgian Bay Transit Company. The vessel was launched on January 16, 1913, and was the older of two near-sister ships, the newer one being SS South American.

North American was {{convert|280|ft|m}} in length, had a {{convert|47|ft|m|sing=on}} beam, and drew {{convert|17|ft|6|in|m}} She had a 2,200 indicated horsepower quadruple expansion steam engine and three coal-burning Scotch boilers. In 1923 the boilers were converted to burn oil.

In 1963, North American was sold to the Canadian Holiday Company of Erie, Pennsylvania. The company used her in cross-lake service between Erie and Port Dover, Ontario, Canada, for one year until she was retired in 1964. After being retired from service, North American was involved in purchasing deals of uncertain nature, and was finally sold at public auction to the Seafarers International Union of North America in 1967 for use as a training ship at Piney Point, Maryland.

While North American was in the North Atlantic Ocean under tow to Piney Point, she unexpectedly sank off Massachusetts on September 4, 1967, 25 nautical miles (29 miles; 46 km) northeast of Nantucket Light.

In July 2006, a research team aboard Quest Marine’s research vessel Quest located the North American close to the edge of the continental shelf, approximately {{convert|140|mi|km}} off the New England coast in {{convert|250|ft|m}} of water.

References

1. ^¹²³{{cite news | title = North American | work = Historical Collection of the Great Lakes | publisher = Bowling Green State University | year = 2003 | url=http://ul.bgsu.edu/cgi-bin/xvsl2.cgi| accessdate = 2009-09-15}}

External links

Marine Historical Society of Detroit: SS North American

5 : Great Lakes ships|Shipwrecks of the Massachusetts coast|Passenger ships of the United States|1913 ships|Maritime incidents in 1967

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