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    VESSEL NAME:    Leetsdale
    OTHER NAME(s):  W. D. Rees (1896-1951)
    OFFICIAL NO:    81535
    DATE OF LOSS:   1955
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Scrapped 
    LOCATION:       Lackawann, N.Y.
    RIG TYPE:       Prop
    HULL TYPE:      Steel
    BUILDER:        Cleveland Ship Building Co.
    OWNER(S):       Bethlehem Steel Co. (1951-1955)
    MASTER:         -
    TONNAGE:        3760 gt, 2992 nt
    DIMENSIONS:     396.33 x 45 x 23.42
    CASUALTIES:     none
    
                    1896 - Stranded between Hog Island & Gray's Reef
                    
                    1904 - Stranded Lake St. Clair. Lightered & released.
    
                    
                    1906 - Struck on Poe's Reef
                           owner: Wilson Transit Co.
                           
                    1909 - Collided with stmr BETHLEHEM near Buffalo
                           breakwater.
                           
                    1913 - In collision with stmr PRINCE RUPERT above the Soo.       
                           
                    1914 - Stranded on Seneca shoals. Lightered & pulled off.
                    
                    1921 - Reconstructed by Interlake Engineering Co., Cleveland
                    
                    1929 - Struck by stmr LOUIS W. HILL at Duluth
                    
                    1937 - Sold by Wilson Transit Co., to Cargo Carriers, Inc.
                    
                    1946 - Sold by Cargo Carriers Inc., to Johnston Trans-
                           portation Co.
                           
                    1950 - Sold by Johnston Transportation Co., to McCarthy
                           Steamship Co.
                    
                    1951 - Sold by McCarthy Steamship Co., to Ore Steamship Co.,
                           a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel. Renamed LEETSDALE
                    


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Sources: The Buffalo Courier - 12 September 1896
         The Buffalo News - 15 December 1904
         The Buffalo Enquirer - 30 April 1906
         The Buffalo Commercial - 12 November 1909
         The Buffalo Commercial - 2 October 1913
         The Buffalo Enquirer - 2 May 1914
         The Buffalo News - 22 March 1937
         The Buffalo News - 18 April 1951