Category:Spartan (ship, 1864)

Ship[edit]

• Type: Sidewheel passenger steamship
• Built by: Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd, Kelvinhaugh, Front Yard; completed at E E Gilbert & Company, Cantin's yard, Montreal
• Yard No: 57
• Keel laid:
• Launched: 1864.11.01
• Completed: 1864
• Length over all: 179.8 ft
• Beam: 28 ft
• GT: 1168
• DWT:
• www.clydeships.co.uk
• greatlakes.bgsu.edu
• www.bac-lac.gc.ca
• www.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca
• www.nemoha.org

History[edit]

• Named Lake Ontario during hull build in Scotland
• 1864 Named Spartan; Flag: Canada
  • Official number: 122070
  • Port: Montreal
  • Owner: Canada Inland Navigation Company, Montreal, Quebec
• 1875 Owner: Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. Ltd., Montreal
• 1905 Renamed Belleville; Flag: Canada
  • Lengthened to 200.2 ft, GT 1223
  • Port: Montreal
  • Owner: Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. Ltd., Montreal
• 1913 Owner: Canada Steamship Lines Ltd
• 1920 Rebuilt as cargo ship; GT 639
• 1924 Scrapped in Kingston, Ontario