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    VESSEL NAME:   Greater Detroit
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   223664
    DATE OF LOSS:  12 December 1956
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Fire
    LOCATION:      Lake St. Clair
    RIG TYPE:      Steamer, side wheel, passenger
    HULL TYPE:     Steel
    BUILDER:       American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, OH - 1923
    OWNER(S):      Robert L. Rosen, Abraham Siegel
    MASTER:        -
    TONNAGE:       7,739 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    513.7 x 58 x 21.3
    CASUALTIES:    -

                   At the end of the 1951 season the GREATER DETROIT
                was layed up in the Detroit river where she remained
                until 1956 when Robert L. Rosen, president of the Lake
                Shore Steel Company, and Abraham Siegel, president of the
                Siegel Iron and Metal Company, purchased her for an un-
                disclosed amount, saying that they hoped to renovate her
                and operate her as a luxury cruise ship. Given their
                professional occupations her destiny wasn't nearly so
                bright. On the following December 12th her anchor was cut,
                as she had no steam power with which to raise it, and she
                was towed out into Lake St. Clair and burned with her
                fleetmate EASTERN STATES. By burning out all the remaining
                woodwork her hull was much easier to scrap.

                   Once hailed as the "flagship" of the Detroit & Cleveland
                Navigation Company, the GREATER DETROIT had 625 luxurious
                staterooms and could carry 2,127 passengers and 103 auto-
                mobiles. Her design implemented every safety feature
                possible including a double bottom steel hull, automatic
                fire alarm system, safety fire walls, sprinkler system in
                every room, automatic sounding machine and alarm, and
                special telephones to connect the pilot house, engineer's
                room, forward bridge and after bridge.

                   On November 15, 2016 her 6,000 pound anchor was
                raised from the Detroit River where it has rested since
                1956.


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Sources: WZZM TV 13 (Grand Rapids, MI) 15 November 2016
         Buffalo Courier, 31 July 1924
         Merchant Vessel List - 1925