Name Alabama Out of service 1946 Launched 18 December 1909 | Yard number 36 Tonnage 2,626 GRT
1,684 NRT | |
Status Converted to non-powered barge, 1961
Scrapped, 2006 Type Great Lakes passenger steamer Builder Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company | ||
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SS Alabama was a steamship that served on the Great Lakes.
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Construction
Alabama was built by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company at Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 1909. She was 275 ft (84 m) in length, had a 46 ft (14 m), 6 in (15 cm) beam, and drew 17 ft 1 in (5.21 m) She was equipped with a 2,200 horsepower quadruple expansion steam engine and a three coal-burning Scotch marine boilers.
Owners
Alabama's first owner was the Goodrich Transit Company.
After Goodrich Transit went bankrupt in 1933 she joined the Chicago, Duluth and Georgian Bay Transit Company, which also owned the SS North American and SS South American.
In 1946, the Georgian Bay Line sold Alabama for conversion to barge service. She was moved to Detroit's Rouge River where her passenger cabins were removed and her hull renovated for use as a cargo barge to haul scrap metal.
Purchased in 2005 by Dean Construction, she was towed to LaSalle, Ontario, Canada that October. she
was later scrapped.