Name: | KAMINISTIQUIA |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 09/03/1909 |
Completed: | 04/1909 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 819 |
Dimensions: | 2173grt, 1401nrt, 250.0 x 43.0 x 22.6ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (20.5, 33 & 54 x 36in), 175nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 125457 |
History: | |
04/1909 | Western Navigation Co Ltd (J Murphy), Newcastle & Fort William |
1916 | Imperial Oil Co Ltd, Newcastle & Sarnia, Ontario |
1916 | Standard Oil Co (New Jersey), New York; renamed WESTOIL |
1921 | Edward P Farley Co Inc, Chicago |
1922 | Petoskey Transportation Co, Chicago; renamed J B JOHN |
1951 | Renamed JOHN L A GALSTER |
1959 | Penn-Dixie Cement Corporation, Chicago |
1968 | Renamed SEA CASTLE |
No later history known | |
Comments: | 1929: Converted to self-discharging cement carrier |
1968: Converted to a barge | |
1989: Reported sold for breaking up but laid up | |
2005: Still laid up at Muskegon |
Above photo as J B JOHN is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as SEA CASTLE (L) is courtesy of George Wharton