  Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 918 Registered: 11-2005 |
I am no expert on the 1910s-1930s Detroit steamers and could use some help identifying this guy: http://i215.photobucket.com/al bums/cc280/buildingsofdetroit/ Postcards/Steamer.jpg It's not the Greater Detroit or the City of Detroit III (not enough smokestacks). Could it be the Eastern States? I know the color scheme would match, but I think the Eastern States had only one smokestack. Sure looks like a D&C steamer judging by its appearance and the logo on the front. Any help is appreciated. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6393 Registered: 10-2003 |
I think that's the City of Cleveland, less glamourous sister of the City of Detroit. Based on the color scheme it's a D&C ship.. http://www.hhpl.on.ca/GreatLak es/GLImages/FullImage.asp?ifid =1363&number= | ||
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe Post Number: 713 Registered: 08-2007 |
The name on the bow does seem to be City of Cleveland. Love the pix! | ||
Leland_palmer Member Username: Leland_palmer Post Number: 385 Registered: 08-2004 |
Would it be a Cleveland Steamer then? | ||
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe Post Number: 714 Registered: 08-2007 |
D& C = Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company, I think. (Message edited by gazhekwe on October 02, 2007) | ||
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe Post Number: 715 Registered: 08-2007 |
This is from the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: As late as the first quarter of the 20th century, the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. and the CLEVELAND & BUFFALO TRANSIT CO. boomed the merits of pleasure and overnight business trips by water: "Spacious stateroom and parlors combined with the quietness with which the boats are operated ensures refreshing sleep." But by World War II, the automobile and airplane--the same transportation forms that would greatly reduce intercity rail passenger travel--virtually killed lake passenger service, and the piers at the foot of E. 9th St. became quiet. ... http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/ar ticle.pl?id=T6 | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 1969 Registered: 11-2003 |
Although this photo/post card says "Off for the upper lakes", this vessel spent most of her life on the Detroit to Cleveland run. Hardly, "the upper lakes". She had a sad demise, however, being involved in a fatal collision with a Norwegian freighter in Lake Huron in 1950. I remember seeing her when we were on a trip from Detroit to Buffalo in another D and C steamer, and she was just sitting idle at a slip in Windsor. No repairs to her port side were even started, and then she fell victim to a fire and was finally scrapped in Buffalo about 50 years ago. | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 922 Registered: 11-2005 |
Thanks, guys. Now, postcards from this era can be inaccurate, but the other images of the City of Cleveland make it look longer than the one in the postcard I posted. Still, two smokestacks, so it could be the winner! |
