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    VESSEL NAME:   Augustus B. Wolvin
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   C325401
    DATE OF LOSS:  1967
    REASON:        Sold for scrapping
    LOCATION:      Spain
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, bulk freighter
    HULL TYPE:     steel
    BUILDER:       American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, OH - 1904
    OWNER(S):      Labrador Steamship Co., Ltd., Montreal, Canada
    MASTER:        -
    TONNAGE:       8316 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    547x56x28
    CASUALTIES:    0
    SURVIVORS:     0
    
            At launch was owned by Acme Steamship Co., Duluth, MN,
         and was "the largest vessel ever built anywhere to navigate
         fresh water."  She had 33 cargo hatchways on the spar deck,
         each measuring 33x9 ft
         Original dimensions were 540x56x32 of 6585 gt.  Rebuilds in 
         1946 & 1950 resulted in dimensions above. Sold to Interlake
         Steamship Co. in 1913.  Laid up at Erie, PA from 1961-1966 
         then sold Canadian.  Declared a total constructive loss in 
         July, 1967, after suffering bottom damage in the Welland
         Canal the month before.  Departed for Spain in August for
         scrapping.
         
         Other events:
         30 July 1909 - grounded on a rocky bottom at Princess Point,
         Portage River.  Caused by the steamer Valerie attempting to
         pass without giving proper signal.  License of William Bussiere,
         master of the Valerie, suspended for 30 days.
         
         4 November 1909 - While being towed stern first into Buffalo
         Harbor the towline parted.  The Wolvin slewed and struck the
         steamers John Plankington and Charles Watson.


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Sources: Buffalo Evening News, March & April, 1904 (launch)
         Merchant Vessel List, 1904
         Marine Engineering, Vol. 9, 1904 - p. 226
         Popular Mechanics, January, 1905 - p. 112
         Report of Dept. of Commerce & Labor - 1910
         Great Lakes Vessel Database, Bowling Green, OH
         Holbrook, "Iron Brew, A Century of American Ore and Steel", 1939
         
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