Shiphotos.com - Ship Photography Archive

Home Search: Images Ships Fleets Builders Transit Reports About Contact Us

Ship Details:

Created: 2018-12-21 6:23:28 PM
Last Edited: 2023-03-17 7:39:23 PM

James Davidson	James Davidson	James Davidson (1962)	James Davidson (1964/07)
James Davidson (1964/07)	James Davidson (1966/10)	James Davidson (1974/06/26)

IMO:

5168766

Details/Construction
Builder:	Detroit Shipbuilding Company	Location:	Wyandotte, Michigan, United States	Hull #:	288
Keel Layed:		Launched:	1920/10/09	Commissioned:	1920/11/05

Propulsion
As built	Type:	1 triple expansion steam engine (24.5", 41.0" & 65.0 x 42.0")	Output:	2300 ihp - 11.0 knots
	Manufacturer:	American Ship Building Company - Lorain, Ohio, USA

Dimensions
As built	Length (oa):	182.9 m (600.0 ft)	Gross Tonnage:	8349
	Length (lbp):	179.2 m (587.8 ft)	Net Tonnage:	6387
	Beam:	18.3 m (60.2 ft)	Dead Weight:
	Depth:	9.8 m (32.0 ft)	Displacement:
	Draft:	6.6 m (21.66 ft)

Owner History

Fleet History

Owner	Manager	From	Until
Globe Steamship Company - Duluth, Minnesota, USA	G.A. Tomlinson - USA	1920/11	1954
Tomlinson Fleet Corporation - Cleveland, Ohio, USA		1954	1964
Buckeye Steamship Company - Cleveland, Ohio, USA		1964	1967
Columbia Transportation Division	Oglebay Norton Company - United States	1967	1971
Oglebay Norton Company - Cleveland, Ohio, USA		1971	1974

Fleet

From

Until

Name History

Registration History

Name	Until
James Davidson	1974

Number	Port	Call Sign	MMSI	From	Until
US 220802	Duluth, Minnesota, United States			1920/11	1932
US 220802	Michigan City, Michigan, United States			1932	1954
US 220802	Wilmington, Delaware, United States			1954	1974

Description

Sold to Marine Salvage in Port Colborne for scrap in 1974 - resold to Spanish shipbreakers
Towed down the Welland Canal on 26 June 1974 by Salvage Monarch and Helen M. McAllister
Departed Quebec City on 30 June 1974 with Kinsman Independent towed by Polish tug Jantar
Tow arrived Santander Spain 21 July 1974.

Disposition
Description/Location	Scrapped at Santander, Spain
Arrival at Yard	1974/07/21	Beached:	Work Began:
Lost			Date:

Ship Details:

Comments