Ships and Car ferries Owned or leased

Car ferries leased

Maitland 1
car ferry

Leased for four months in 1916 from Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo Navigation Co. while their own slip was being completed at Ashtabula, Ohio.

US 214213, 338'x56'x18'3", steel, 2757 gross tons, build at Ecorse, Mich, Great Lakes engineering Works, 1916, hull 129.

Engines same Ann Arbor Boat 6

Boilers: four scotch marine, 13'2"x12', built by Marine Boiler Works, Toledo, 1916.

Leased to Nicholson Universal Steamship Company in 1935 to carry automobiles between Milwaukee and Muskegon. Requisitioned by War Shipping Administration 1942. Engines removed and hull sold to John Roen. Sides cut down and reduced to a pulpwood barge.

Pere Marquette No . 19

PERE MARQUETTE 19 from Historical Collections of Great Lakes, Bowling Green, Ohio

Registry and Rig information

Depth	19.42
Gross Tonnage	2026
Net Tonnage	1548
Hull Material	steel
Hull Number	00418

Vessel History

Rebuilds

Reduced to pulpwood, with traveling crane, 1940, at Sturgeon Bay, WI [338 x 56 16.58; 2674 gross – 2674 net]. Reduce to flat deck barge at Sturgeon Bay, 1974.

History

Under charter summer, 1906 to Ann Arbor Rail Railway Co. Under Charter, 1924, to Grand Trunk Railway Co.

Laid up at Ludington, MI, along with PERE MARQUETTE 20, during most of 1930's because they had no passenger accommodations.

As PERE MARQUETTE 19: Ran aground in fog, February 6, 1904, at Fox Point, WI, while approaching Milwaukee, fill with water. Re-floated on February 19, 1904, with reported loss of $60,000.

Struck bottom om March 14, 1912, off South Point, while approaching Manitowoc, WI, an punctured a plate, causing leaking; released herself. Repairs made at Manitowoc Dry Dock Co.

September 1916, served as backup for Ann Arbor No. 5 while in dry dock,doing break bulk from Frankfort.[HFB]

Grounded during during blizzard, January 17, 1916, two miles south of Big Point Sable Sable, About 600 feet off shore, while approaching Ludington, MI, from Milwaukee. Released by tug S. M. FISHER, with aid from tugs MERCEREAU, MEYERS, THRID MICHIGAN, and car ferry PERE MARQUETTE 18, as was in Ludington by February 12. Was then taken to to Manitowoc for repairs; loss estimated at $96,000.

Stranded in ice, December 26, 1924, and scuttled about 800 feet from Grand Haven, MI, piers, while leaving port, settled parallel to shore. Work free on December 29, 1924, and taken to Manitowoc for repairs; loss estimated $30,000.


BUILT INFORMATION
Builder	American Ship building Company
Date Built	1903-00-00
Place Built	Cleveland, Ohio

Vessel Names	Year		Registry			Official Number
HILDA	1941-00-00		U.S.			200459

Vessel Owners
Name		Begin Date		End Date	Registry		Official Number
Pere Marquette Railway Co.		1903-00-00		1940-00-00	U.S.		200459
John J. Roen		1940-00-00		1946-00-00	U.S.		200459
Roen Steamship Co.		1946-00-00		1973	U.S.		200459
Asher Marine Rentals		1973-00-00		1976-00-00	U.S.		200459
		1976-00-00			PANAMA