by William Lafferty » March 8, 2023, 3:08 pm
This is a pen-and-ink drawings done by Father Dowling based on a panoramic view of Detroit, showing a likeness of the
Transit, a ferry the Great Western built in 1872 the year before the the firm built the smaller
Saginaw, and I believe the latter would have looked much similar. I have a very old stereo card of the
Transit at Detroit with the
J. W. Steinhoff and it looks quite similar except the cabin below the pilothouse is higher.
Saginaw was wooden-hulled, single screw. This comes from the late George Hilton's
The Great Lakes Car Ferries.
[attachment=0]Saginaw 1873.png[/attachment]This is a pen-and-ink drawings done by Father Dowling based on a panoramic view of Detroit, showing a likeness of the [I]Transit[/i], a ferry the Great Western built in 1872 the year before the the firm built the smaller [I]Saginaw[/I], and I believe the latter would have looked much similar. I have a very old stereo card of the [I]Transit[/I] at Detroit with the [I]J. W. Steinhoff[/I] and it looks quite similar except the cabin below the pilothouse is higher. [I]Saginaw[/i] was wooden-hulled, single screw. This comes from the late George Hilton's [I]The Great Lakes Car Ferries[/I].