Category:Midland City (ship, 1870)
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- Built by Barclay, Curle & Co, Glasgow, Scotland in 1871
- Length: 36.6 m
- Beam: 9.8 m
- Named: Maude and working in Kingston ON.
- 1895 Enlarged and renamed America
- 1920 Came to Georgian Bay as a steam side-wheeler and renamed as the Midland City by the Georgian Bay Tourist Company of Midland.
- The ship was well staffed and luxurious by the days standards and including a restaurant and staterooms for the wealthy. he even had space to transport two cars.
- 1926 Sank when tied to the dock when a storm tilted him and his open portholes filled him with water.
- 1933 Converted to a propeller motor ship.
- 1934 Sank on return from Go Home Bay he struck a reef at Present Island and he was beached on Midland Point to prevent lose.
- 1955 De-registered and hauled up where Wye Heritage Marina is now.
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