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dc.contributor.author Unknown en_US
dc.coverage.spatial Great Lakes en_US
dc.coverage.temporal ca. 1899 -- 1969 en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2008-09-23T10:08:11Z
dc.date.available 2008-09-23T10:08:11Z
dc.date.created 1938 en_US
dc.date.issued 2008-09-23T10:08:11Z
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2374.BGSU/976
dc.description The DOUGLASS HOUGHTON was built in 1899 by Globe Iron Works at Cleveland, OH U.S. The Douglass Houghton is a steel hulled propeller driven vessel with a length of 456 feet, and a width of 50 feet. It displaces 5332 tons, and has a load capacity of 4034 tons. It entered service in the year 1899 under the ownership of Bessemer Steamship Co. of Cleveland, OH U.S. The vessel was removed from service with the following notation: Sold in Spring, 1969, to Toronto Harbour Commissioners and sunk as landfill for Ontario Government Pavilion, Canadian National Exposition Grounds, just west of west gap, in August, 1969. (August 20, 1969). The photograph shows the Douglass Houghton under way on the Great Lakes. More information about this vessel is available at the <a href="http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/page39984.html">HCGL Website</a> en_US
dc.language en_US en_US
dc.relation.ispartof HCGL Main Photograph Collection en_US
dc.rights World en_US
dc.rights.uri http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/page41430.html en_US
dc.subject.lcsh ships -- great lakes -- n. america en_US
dc.subject.lcsh ships -- great lakes -- Ohio en_US
dc.title Douglass Houghton en_US
dc.type 6 x 9 Black & White Print en_US
dc.contributor.repository Historic Collections of the Great Lakes en_US
dc.contributor.repository Historical Collections of the Great Lakes / Center for Archival Collections en_US
dc.publisher.digital Historical Collections of the Great Lakes en_US
dc.date.digitized 03/08/2000 en_US
dc.equipment.digitizing HP Scanjet 6200C en_US
dc.relation.hasformat Photographic Print en_US
dc.contributor.institution Bowling Green State University en_US

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