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The SS Sylvania was a 572-foot (174 m) (Originally 524-foot (160 m) long) Great Lakes freighter that had a long 79-year career on the Great Lakes. Sylvania was built by the West Bay City Shipbuilding Company of West Bay City, Michigan as hull #613. She was built for the Duluth Steamship Company of Duluth, Minnesota. She had six accidents in her career, the first one occurred on June 12, 1905 when Sylvania collided with the steamer of Whitefish Point, Lake Superior because of confused passing signals.

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dbo:abstract The SS Sylvania was a 572-foot (174 m) (Originally 524-foot (160 m) long) Great Lakes freighter that had a long 79-year career on the Great Lakes. Sylvania was built by the West Bay City Shipbuilding Company of West Bay City, Michigan as hull #613. She was built for the Duluth Steamship Company of Duluth, Minnesota. She had six accidents in her career, the first one occurred on June 12, 1905 when Sylvania collided with the steamer of Whitefish Point, Lake Superior because of confused passing signals. In 1914 the ship's name was changed to D.M. Philbin, she sailed with this name until August 30, 1929 when her name was changed back to Sylvania. On August 30, 1916 she had a collision with the at the ore docks in Duluth. On May 19, 1918 she collided with the steamer two miles off Whitefish Point in a dense fog. On July 3, 1922 she had a collision with the in the Detroit River suffering a minimal amount of damage. On April 30, 1929 Sylvania grounded on the north side of Lake Erie after the crew mistook the Conneaut airport beacon for a navigation light, shortly after this the ship ran aground on a sandbar off Whitman's Creek to the west of Conneaut, Ohio. (en)
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dbp:shipFate Scrapped in Ashtabula, Ohio in 1984 (en)
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rdfs:comment The SS Sylvania was a 572-foot (174 m) (Originally 524-foot (160 m) long) Great Lakes freighter that had a long 79-year career on the Great Lakes. Sylvania was built by the West Bay City Shipbuilding Company of West Bay City, Michigan as hull #613. She was built for the Duluth Steamship Company of Duluth, Minnesota. She had six accidents in her career, the first one occurred on June 12, 1905 when Sylvania collided with the steamer of Whitefish Point, Lake Superior because of confused passing signals. (en)
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