SS Manitoulin was a Great Lakes passenger steamship . She was built in 1889 as Modjeska , and renamed Manitoulin in 1927 after a major refit. She was laid up in 1949 and scrapped in 1953.
6-508: Napier, Shanks and Bell built Modjeska in Yoker , Glasgow, Scotland, launching her on 13 April 1889. Her registered length was 178.0 ft (54.3 m), her beam was 31.1 ft (9.5 m) and her depth was 12.3 ft (3.7 m). She was a twin-screw steamship , and each of her screws was driven by a triple-expansion steam engine built by Dunsmuir and Jackson Ltd. of Govan . Between them her twin engines were rated at 166 NHP . Modjeska
12-516: Is now an operations centre for the North Clyde Line , part of Glasgow's suburban rail network. Yoker railway station has services on the North Clyde and Argyle Lines . Several buses travel along Dumbarton Road , the main thoroughfare between Glasgow and Clydebank which runs parallel to the river. A road bridge at the ferry crossing point was constructed in 2024, providing easier access to
18-600: The Scottish Gaelic Eochair meaning a river bank. From the fourteenth century, the Renfrew Ferry has linked Yoker with Renfrew on the south bank of the river. The shipbuilding industry drove the growth of the district in the 19th century; this has since declined, although the nearby Yarrows shipyard, now owned by BAE Systems , is still in operation. Motor vehicles and tramcars were also manufactured in Yoker, which
24-697: The ship was about 20 miles offshore, members of the American De Forest Wireless Co. exchanged messages with company engineers, scientists and dignitaries on shore in Toronto. In 1926 the Owen Sound Transportation Company acquired Modjeska in damaged condition, had her refitted, renamed her Manitoulin and moved her to Owen Sound . The refit provided cabins and staterooms for up to 150 passengers and increased her tonnages to 913 GRT and 453 NRT . In 1949 Manitoulin
30-668: Was an excursion steamer on Lake Ontario . Her first owner was the Hamilton Steamboat Co Ltd, which registered her in Hamilton, Ontario . Her United Kingdom official number was 96058. Her ownership passed to the Niagara Steam Navigation Co Ltd in 1911 and Canada Steamship Lines Ltd in 1915. On June 13, 1903, the Modjeska was involved in an early Canadian demonstration of ship-to-shore wireless transmission. While
36-463: Was laid up, and in 1950 Norgoma replaced her. Manitoulin was stripped in 1951 at Port Dalhousie, Ontario and scrapped in late 1953 at Port Weller Dry Docks . Yoker Yoker ( Scottish Gaelic : An Eochair ) is an area of Glasgow , Scotland , located on the northern bank of the Clyde east of Clydebank , 5 miles (8 kilometres) west of the city centre. The name is an Anglicisation of
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