Hamonic passing under the Blue Water Bridge
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History | |
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Name | Hamonic |
Owner | Northern Navigation Company |
Operator | Northern Navigation Company |
Port of registry | Collingwood, Ontario |
Route | Detroit-Port Arthur/Fort William-Duluth |
Builder | Collingwood Shipbuilding Company |
Launched | 1909 |
Fate | Burned July 17, 1945 at Sarnia, Ontario and scrapped 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Great Lakes Passenger ship/freighter |
Length | 341 ft (103.9 m) |
Beam | 50 ft (15.2 m) |
Depth | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Decks | 4 |
Installed power | Coal-fired Scotch boilers, quadruple expansion engine (by John Inglis and Company |
Propulsion | 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW) single shaft/propeller |
Hamonic was a passenger vessel designed for service on the Great Lakes.[1][2] She was launched in 1909, and served until she burned, in a catastrophic fire, at Sarnia, Ontario, on July 17, 1945.[1][2] However, unlike the catastrophic fire that struck her sister ship, Noronic, in 1949, where 119 passengers died, all of Hamonic's passengers and crew survived.
Elmer Kleinsmith, a crane operator, operating a crane designed to load and unload coal, was near enough to use his crane's bucket, to rescue the ship's complement.[1][2] Some sources say there were no fatalities, others say there was a single fatality.[3][4]
Other members of her fleet included Huronic, Doric, and Ionic.[5]