SS Alabama

SS "Alabama" was a Great Lakes steamboat built by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company at Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 1909 for the Goodrich Transit Company. After Goodrich Transit went bankrupt in 1933 she joined the Chicago, Duluth and Georgian Bay Transit Company's SS "North American" and SS "South American".

The "Alabama" was convert|275|ft|m in length, had a convert|46|ft|m|sing=on, 6 inch-beam, and drew convert|17|ft|1|in|m She was equipped with a 2,200 indicated horsepower quadruple expansion steam engine and a three coal-burning Scotch boilers.

In 1946, the Georgian Bay sold the "Alabama". She was moved to Detroit's Rouge River where her passenger cabins were removed and her hull renovated for use as a barge to haul scrap metal.

Purchased in 2005 by Dean Construction, she was towed to LaSalle, Ontario, Canada that October. Dean's plans for the ship are unknown.

External links

* [http://www.mhsd.org/passenger/alabama.htm Marine Historical Society of Detroit: SS Alabama]