This is a photo of the Michigan troops on their way to Keweenaw, MI to diffuse a copper miner’s strike in 1913 Designed by Frank Kirby and built by Toledo Ship Building Co. of Toledo, OH in 1911, hull # 119. Launched as CHIEF WAWATAM for Mackinac Transportation Co. of St. Ignace, MI for use as a railroad ferry link crossing the Straits of Mackinac. Keel laid on June 1, 1911, launched on August 26, 1911, sailed on maiden voyage October 16, 1911 and arrived at St. Ignace, MI for the first time on October 18, 1911. Dimensions: 351’ 00” loa x 62’ 00” beam x 20’ 06” depth; 2,990 GRT, 1,793 NRT.  Cargo capacity: 22 railcars with a combined weight of up to 2,990 tons. Power: 3 triple expansion engines for a total of  4,500 hp. The CHIEF WAWATAM had one propeller forward for ice breaking and 2 propellers aft Added by feastingonroadkill: Euphemism of the day:“Diffuse” =  Strike Break Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914

This is a photo of the Michigan troops on their way to Keweenaw, MI to diffuse a copper miner’s strike in 1913

Designed by Frank Kirby and built by Toledo Ship Building Co. of Toledo, OH in 1911, hull # 119. Launched as CHIEF WAWATAM for Mackinac Transportation Co. of St. Ignace, MI for use as a railroad ferry link crossing the Straits of Mackinac.

Keel laid on June 1, 1911, launched on August 26, 1911, sailed on maiden voyage October 16, 1911 and arrived at St. Ignace, MI for the first time on October 18, 1911.

Dimensions: 351’ 00” loa x 62’ 00” beam x 20’ 06” depth; 2,990 GRT, 1,793 NRT.  Cargo capacity: 22 railcars with a combined weight of up to 2,990 tons. Power: 3 triple expansion engines for a total of  4,500 hp. The CHIEF WAWATAM had one propeller forward for ice breaking and 2 propellers aft

Added by feastingonroadkill:

Euphemism of the day:
“Diffuse” =  Strike Break

Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914

Posted on February 6th, 2012
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