From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
LB2010.9.122985
320.5' steel-hulled, turbine-driven, triple-screw steamer CAMDEN built 1907 at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me. Weight and Dimensions: 1143 ntons gross displacement; 320.5' length x 40' breadth x 16.1' depth Steam ship S.S. CAMDEN underway approaching a pier at Belfast, Maine. Eastern Steamship Lines, Inc. Boston - Bangor Line Boston - Rockland - Camden - Bucksport - Winterport - Bangor Operated Boston - New York during WW1 Unable to return to Maine run due to changes in Navigation laws after loss of Morro Castle Sold to Colonial Line April 8. 1936 Operated as Army transport in Hawaiian Islands during WW2 Sold to Asia Development Corp of Shanghai April 30. 1948 Other names: Comet, Wansu (Chinese) Sister ship: Belfast Built at Bath Iron Works, 1907 Number 204087 Length 320.5 Breadth 40.0 Draught 16.1 Gross tonnage 2153.0 Speed 18 knots
